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IN FOCUS: The home secretary’s joke about using a date rape drug shows why society still has a long way to go in confronting this crime. Olivia Petter talks to victims, experts and campaigners about the awful reality of spiking – and how to stop it

Needle spiking is when a person is injected with a drug without their consent, and it's unknown how much it's happening in Australian venues.

Reports of needle spiking. again, no—one knows the full extent of the problem. several victims say they were dissatisfied by the way their complaint was dealt with by the police. chief officers described the crime as complex and challenging to investigate, but are urging people who've been targeted to report it as early as possible and to be tested by police. the warning comes ahead of new year's eve, one of the biggest party nights of the year, and a time when potential victims could be at their most vulnerable. john maguire, bbc news. fighting in ukraine is currently at a deadlock while ky...

Following similar incidents in Britain and France, Spanish police are investigating a string of cases of women being injected with possibly spiked syringes in crowded clubs. Raising fears that sexual predators might have found a variant on spiking drinks to prey on women, the attacks have been reported to police or on social media over the past few weeks. According to the Spanish police, no traces of drugs or other toxic products have been detected and no cases of related sexual violence reported.