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WHAT TO DO IF YOU HAVE BEEN SPIKED ABROAD
 | Listen to your body and trust your instincts – If you feel strange,
sick or drunk after only a couple of drinks, or even if you have not
drunk alcohol, take action, someone could have spiked your drink. | | |
Tell a friend to take you to a safe place, such as your hotel room and
ask them to stay with you until the effects of the drug have fully worn
off – probably the following morning. However be very sure that you
trust the person you are asking to help, no matter how long you have
known them. | | | If you are alone, or with a stranger, get help from the travel company
guide or representative, the local police, a hospital or the British
Embassy, High Commission or Consulate. If you want to contact the
British Embassy outside working hours, most of their offices operate an
answer-phone service giving an emergency number. | | |
It is important to get to a safe place. If possible, ask someone to contact a trusted friend. | | | Never let a stranger take you anywhere. | | |
Try to avoid giving out your personal details, including financial
details such as pin numbers, bank and card details, where you are
staying or your room number, passport or travel documents . Most hotels
have safes, when you go out think about leaving your passport and
travel documents locked up. | | |
Consider getting medical attention. Drugs can affect people in
different ways, and may react badly with any medication you are taking. |
WHAT TO DO IF YOU HAVE BEEN SPIKED
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Everyone is aware of their personal tolerance to alcohol so if you feel
odd, nauseous, tipsy or wasted and you know that you cannot be drunk,
it is possible that your drink has been spiked with either drugs or
alcohol.
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If so immediately get to a place of safety. If you are with close
friends tell them of your worries, get them to take you home as quickly
as possible. Once safely home ask them to stay with you until the
effects of the drug have worn off. | | |
However be very sure that you implicitly trust the person or friend you
are asking. Many victims of DFSA (Drug Facilitated Sexual Abuse) have
been attacked by people they know, by work mates, colleagues, friends
or acquaintances, and in some cases, the person they went on a date
with that night. | | |
If you are alone or with a stranger go to the landlord or pub/bar
manager and tell them of your fears. Get the landlord to put you in his
private accommodation or an office whilst they ring a taxi, a trusted
friend, or your parents to help get you home safely. If at all possible
always make sure that you are accompanied by a trusted friend. | | |
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES LET A STRANGER OR ACQUAINTANCE OFFER TO HELP YOU
OR TAKE YOU ANYWHERE INCLUDING TO YOUR OWN HOME - THEY COULD WELL BE
THE PERSON WHO SPIKED YOUR DRINK!
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If you fear you’ve had sex whilst under the influence of drugs taken
unwillingly through a drink being spiked, and if you wish the police to
be involved - report it! | | |
Go straight to the police, preferably the specialist officers dealing
with rape and sexual abuse, and insist that they take blood and urine
samples, it could prove to be vital forensic evidence. In order to
establish a case it is vital that the police have the opportunity to
take these samples as soon as possible as the drugs used in DFSA pass
through the system very quickly (some within 12 hours others in 48). It
is also advisable to make sure you are accompanied by a friend,
relation or even better, a solicitor. | | | It is very important that you visit your doctor or a GUM Clinic, as you
have no proof that the rapist used a condom. Therefore in addition to
the need for a morning-after pill, you must never forget the risk of
aids or other sexually transmitted diseases. | | | Also give yourself a financial health check. These drugs sometimes act
as truth drugs and under their effect you may divulge financial
information such as pin numbers or bank and credit card details |
Infomation supplied by The Roofie Foundation
| The Roofie Foundation is neither a pro nor anti-drugs organisation.
As an organisation it has no political bias. It has been founded solely with the intention of addressing the situation of drug related sexual abuse.
We feel strongly that information about the danger of the so called “date-rape drugs” and information about the dangers of drink-spiking should be dissipated to everyone in the country. To members of the public, police, licensees, and student campuses but especially to all men and women who frequent pubs and clubs, especially prior to the commencement of the Christmas season and office parties, and especially prior to embarkation on foreign holidays.
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