Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.
A study of self-reported drink-spiking victims admitted to an Australian hospital found that none of them actually had their drink spiked with a drug.
Ninety percent of the 100 purported victims were women, and most were under 25. Investigators found in almost every case their level of intoxication matched up with the amount of alcohol they had conceded consuming. Furthermore, toxicology reports didn't find a single instance of a sedative being put in a drink.
Even after being told their drinks weren't spiked, one-third of the "victims" continued to insist that they were.
We tried to use the "my drink must have been spiked" excuse with a girlfriend once. No, we are no longer dating.
UPDATE: This post has upset a few people and we want to address the concerns of our readers. If David Letterman can be self-aware, then so can we. While the findings in the Australian study were interesting and we stand by our decision to report on them, we should have made it more explicit that this was just one individual study and not necessarily representative of a larger trend.
We know the crime of spiking drinks does occur. We also recognize that when it occurs, it can sometimes lead to even more heinous crimes, including rape. We understand the gravity of such evil acts, and we realize that the article may have come across as if we take such acts lightly. For that we sincerely apologize.
We care about our readers and appreciate your thoughts. We hope you'll keep sharing them with us.


























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Wednesday 17 June
By speedergurl68
They couldn't be more wrong. I don't know about women in Australia...but it happened to ME here in the US. I had exactly ONE beer...and HOURS of really bad stuff happened. Someone most certainly DID spike my drink. I am lucky to be alive from what I understand.
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Wednesday 17 June
By me
I'm a rape crisis counselore for local ER's. I can't believe they were so irresponsible as to print an article like this. It happens and it happens more and more often. What they fail to note is that many of the drugs used clear the system in a matter of hours so testing is difficult. There are times that it is almost compeletely out of the system by the time the vic even comes too. Please be careful out there.
Wednesday 17 June
By Jermy Taylor
According to the investigation all but one of you are lying!
Wednesday 17 June
By jkatzinski
...right
Wednesday 17 June
By melanie
I had the same thing happen to me. I had 1 1/2 drinks and that's it. Thank God my husband was just outside and came to my rescue. I don't remember the night or the next day at all. I also know of at least 2 other people, one a man, it happened to.
Wednesday 17 June
By kell
I too was a victim of drink spiking. They spiked my drink when I was in the bathroom and within 30 min. I was stumbling down the street back to my hotel. They followed me and as soon as I turned the corner, off the main drag, they pulled over and threw me in their van.
Needless to say nine hours later I was dumped in front of my hotel naked. PLEASE take this seriously. Don't go out alone and don't leave your drink unattended.
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Wednesday 17 June
By Bonnie
I had 2 drinks at a house party they were both light I woke up later that night my undies gone and had been used numerous times it does happen
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Wednesday 17 June
By So you are stupid then
sounds like somebody is an idiot. Run that train girl.
Wednesday 17 June
By It happens
It happens. I was the victim of a spiked drink. My drink was a regular pop. Somebody put acid in it. It was terrifying.
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Wednesday 17 June
By J. MCGOWEN
I BELIEVE YOU, A FEW YEARS AGO, 2001-2005, I BOUGHT THIS FULL LICQUOR BAR, AND AS I SAT WITH MY CUSTOMERS, I DIDN'T DRINK ANY BOOZE, SO I COULD STAY ON TOP OF ANY ROUDIES, I ALWAYS DRANK TONIC WATER, ONE NIGHT I EITHER WENT TO THE MENS ROOM OR INTO THE BACK TO GET THE BARTENDER ANOTHER BOTTLE OF WHATEVER, IT WASN'T LONG, I HAD LEFT THE BAR, GOT ARRESTED, DUI, SPENT THREE DAYS IN JAIL, SOMEONE PUT SOMETHING IN MY TONIC WATER, AND KNOCKED MY REAREND OUT, SO IT CAN HAPPEN....
Wednesday 17 June
By curt
years before my conversion to Christianity, I was in a bar with several people I had 2 beers, on the 2nd beer I went to the restroom. I came out and finished my beer. I ended up on the side of a cliff in a curve , with my bike smashed and I lay unconcious for I dont know how long. I believe that my beer was spiked and noone can ever convince me it wasnt. 2 beers dont get you passing out drunk.
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Wednesday 17 June
By Taephit
Well, if you can be convinced to obey an invisible man in the sky, you clearly wouldn't exagerate or overemphasize...No really, I believe you *wink wink*
Wednesday 17 June
By Carrie
What a fun "fact" to "amaze" your buddies with. The author even makes a "fun" joke about drink spiking and an ex-girlfriend. Obviously he's never had his half-glass of wine spiked and then been taken advantage of.
It's real. It DOES happen and it CAN happen to you. Ladies - don't ever let men buy you drinks and bring them from the bar to you. Guard your drinks like Fort Knox. If you go to the ladies room, have a girlfriend watch your drink, bring it with you, or toss it when you come back.
Articles like this make light of something that is a real problem. I question the methodology of the study in Australia. Just because many women may be wrong about their drink being spiked doesn't mean that thousands of other women aren't RIGHT. The fact is, the vast majority of these cases go unreported. Drink spiking isn't an excuse used by women - it's a real and serious problem in our society.
This whole article is insulting and damaging to women. This problem IS NOT a joke. Calling out victims in quotation marks just underscores how men objectify women, which is exactly the attitude that helps men justify heinous actions like spiking. This author sickens me and should be ashamed of himself.
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Wednesday 17 June
By johnamania
"have a girlfriend watch your drink" ? How sexist, are they any safer than a boyfriend?
Wednesday 17 June
By Lily
Welll, here's what I say - whatever lame-ass "author" took the time out to write this article, and all the cohorts involved in the publishing of it - WATCH OUT!! Because ANYONE can play this game, and I'm guessing that when it happens to you, you're gonna end up naked in some ditch, photographed with your teenie little, impotent weenies exposed for all the world to see ...What else could possibly possess a guy to stoop to such behavior? What? you think because no one "knows" you pull this crap at night in dark bars that we can't all see right through you in your everyday, pathetic phasod? We see you, and paybacks, Baby are a bitch:)...Ya'll have a nice day now, ya hear?...
Wednesday 17 June
By brendan4000
The fact is that most women (and men) can't take responsibility for themselves anymore. I believe a scientific study over someone who can't ADMIT they had "more than 2 drinks" and got stinking drunk. I can't tell you how many times I heard the "spiked drink" excuse, and then reminded the person how much they actually drank. Usually the response is "Oh yeah, I forgot." I put this up there with "I don't know why I'm fat, I don't eat much!" Then you watch the person eat and they eat 4 times more than anyone else.....
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Saturday 11 July
By Speedracer
Amen to you brother.
Wednesday 17 June
By Kelly
Bollocks.
Friday 19 June
By kell
Surely you jest. Comparing excess weight to rape? Brilliant Brendan. I don't care how much you drink you never derserve a drugging experience and rape by multiple people. People like you, that see drink drugging and rape as a victimless crime are the same people that keep teens and women from reporting this crime.
Saturday 27 June
By stevek567
he wasn't saying n e body deserved to be raped he is saying take responsibility for yourself. its like the boy who cried wolf, he made it so when everybody else that really saw a wolf cried nobody gave them credit and listened to them. that is what is going on i go to a very large university and i have herd it more than once. in some cases it is like oh i only had 6 drinks but i smoke a joint and didn't eat all day.