In the press

Jan 2024

The independent  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/alcohol-liver-disease-women-deaths-b2477598.html

Drinks Business https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2023/12/home-office-announces-anti-spiking-measures/

Dec 2023

The metro https://metro.co.uk/2023/12/12/urgent-warning-children-collapse-using-laced-vapes-19960503/

The Drinks Business – https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2023/12/home-office-announces-anti-spiking-measures/

Oct 2023

The Face  https://theface.com/society/should-i-be-worried-about-my-vape-being-spiked-vaping-drugs

Metro https://metro.co.uk/2023/09/25/vapes-now-a-target-for-spiking-with-victims-unknowingly-taking-thc-19554282/

Wired – PCCS Support Alcohol Education Trust’s Spiking Awareness Campaign https://www.apccs.police.uk/latest-news/pccs-support-alcohol-education-trusts-spiking-awareness-campaign/

Sep 2023

Dorset Echo https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/23809913.poundbury-alcohol-education-trust-win-1-000-award/

Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/drink-spiking-incidents-freshers-week-b2416780.html

Good Housekeeping – https://alcoholeducationtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/GH_Talking_point_Womens-Safety.pdf

June 2023

ABC news, Australia: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-07/needle-spiking-sydney-warning/102444708

Hack Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/needle-spiking-is-happening-in-australian-venues/id78995043?i=1000615982596

April 2023

Service95.com: service95.com/spiking-epidemic-uk/

March 2023

Oxford Mail: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23422306.oxford-brookes-students-self-medicating-drugs-alcohol/

October 2022

echolive.ie:   How should parents teach teens to drink responsibly?

impactnottingham.com: One Year Ago Today: GirlsNightIn…Are We There Yet? – Impact Magazine

 

AET in Press re Drink Spiking – 2022

University Business: Anti-spiking campaign launches ahead of freshers’ week – University Business

Daily Mail: Woman, 22, was spiked while on night out with friends at nightclub | Daily Mail Online

Great Yarmouth Mercury: Teens ‘graffiti’ Great Yarmouth shops with police | Great Yarmouth Mercury

The Guardian:  Prevalence of drink and needle spiking unknown, MPs say | Violence against women and girls

Daily Mail Online: As many as 43,000 people may have been spiked by drink or drugs on nights out in the UK last year

yahoo.com: Drink spiking is being blamed on women being ‘drunk’

S W Londoner: More than a third of drink spiking happens at private parties

thetab.com: An estimated 43,000 people may have been spiked last year in the UK

AET in Press re Drink Spiking – 2021

BBC Newsbeat: Drink spiking at house parties ‘big concern’ for police – BBC News

UNILAD: Drink Spiking Branded An ‘Epidemic’ As Shocking Statistics Reveal How Many Young Women Are Targeted – UNILAD

Independent: Girls Night In campaign to boycott nightclubs over spikings branded ‘backwards’ by campaigners (msn.com)

The Mirror: One in seven young women report being spiked as attacks become an ‘epidemic’ – Mirror Online

NME: Drink spiking at house parties becoming “big concern” for police in England (nme.com)

BBC: Drink spiking: Police ‘gaslit’ me, says woman – BBC News

WONKHE: How should we respond to stories of student “spiking” around the country? | Wonkhe

Daily Mail: Two more women claim to have been injected on night out as spiking victim, 25, pictured in hospital | Daily Mail Online

Silta Milk: Drink spiking: Police ‘gaslit’ me, says woman – BBC News | Silta Milk

Herald Scotland: Spiking by injection: Experts say scenario is ‘far-fetched’ | HeraldScotland

Student Beans: Why Students Are Boycotting Clubs In Response To A Rise In Spiking (studentbeans.com)

Data Kingz: Needle spiking: Everything we know after women targeted in nightclubs – Data Kingz

The Tab: ‘I went from sober to throwing up in five minutes’: Young people’s stories of being spiked (thetab.com)

Biz News Post: One In Seven Young Women Report Being Spiked As Attacks Become An ‘epidemic’ – Biznewspost

News of America: Needle spiking: Everything we know about women targeted at nightclubs – News of America

The World News: One in seven young women report being spiked as attacks become an ‘epidemic’ (theworldnews.net)

Edinburgh Capital News: Needle Spiking: Everything We Know After Targeting Women in Nightclubs – Edinburgh Capital News

Vice: Here’s What We Know About Reports of Women Being ‘Spiked With Needles’ in UK Clubs (vice.com)

Express Digest: More women come forward claiming they were spiked on nights out | Express Digest

News Nation America Spiking victim, 25, is pictured unconscious in a hospital bed after being ‘injected with Ketamine’ – News Nation USA

Tech Viral Tips: Inside the terrifying spiking epidemic on UK campuses – Tech Viral Tips

Gob Online: Two more women claim to have been injected on night out as spiking victim, 25, pictured in hospital – GOB News (gobgh.co.uk)

The Scot Free: The Scotfree | Spiking victim, 25, is pictured unconscious in a hospital bed after being ‘injected with Ketamine’

Newsmond: One in seven young women report being spiked as attacks become an ‘epidemic’ – Newsmond Blog

This Morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Wp2FHIF4Y

Independent: Drink spiking ‘often dismissed’ by police and NHS | The Independent

Closer: ‘Spiking is an epidemic – it can happen to anyone’ | Closer (closeronline.co.uk)

Metro: Needle spiking: Everything we know after women targeted in nightclubs | Metro News

Fullfact: What do we know so far about reports of ‘spiking’ with needles? – Full Fact

Daily Express: Hundreds of needle assaults and drinks spiking in UK clubs recorded | UK | News | Express.co.uk

Independent: 1 in 9 women in UK say they’ve been victim of drink spiking, polling finds | The Independent

The Tab: https://thetab.com/uk/2021/12/01/spiking-happens-more-at-house-parties-than-in-clubs-so-why-does-no-one-talk-about-it-229179