What is the extent of drink spiking in Australia?
The police and authorities will never know the extent of drink spiking in Australia. This is mainly due to a lack of evidence or a lack of detection of a drug inside a persons system at the time these authorities have been contacted. The reason being is that most of the drugs used in spiking drinks will leave your system before the next morning. This places a person who has been spiked in a difficult situation as they will usually have memory loss and no recollection of the unfortunate events that took place. So basically, there is no evidence that you have been spiked. And even if there was traces in your drink there is usually no way that you can point the finger at. There is currently no way to determine the exact number of drink spiking incidents which occur within the community. This is due to (a) high levels of under-reporting, (b) fluctuations in reporting due to awareness campaigns, (c) jurisdictional differences in data recording and extraction procedures and (d) difficulty in
