{"id":409891,"date":"2022-12-04T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=409891"},"modified":"2022-12-04T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T10:22:17","slug":"what-is-needle-spiking-what-travelers-should-know-you-always-think-it-won-t-happen-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/what-is-needle-spiking-what-travelers-should-know-you-always-think-it-won-t-happen-to-you","title":{"rendered":"What is needle spiking, what travelers should know: ‘You always think it won’t happen to you’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Ow!” Micaela looked alarmed when she turned to me at the bar and told me she thought she might have been needle spiked, or injected with drugs. Prior to her move to London in September for graduate school, my friend Micaela, 27, received a warning from a friend in Germany about the prevalence of spiking throughout Europe – either by slipping a drug into a drink or injecting drugs into someone’s body with a hypodermic needle. The phenomena of needle spiking gained attention across the United Kingdom during a “sudden increase across the country in October 2021,” according to a recent report by the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee. Micaela, whose last name isn’t included due to the nature of her experience, hadn’t even taken a sip of her drink when she felt the jab in her hip. But she knew something was wrong within five minutes. She became woozy, dizzy and couldn’t see straight. She immediately told me that she wasn’t feeling well. Micaela doesn’t remember what happened<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One year since initial reports of needle spiking in UK nightlife, the threat persists across Europe. And Americans don’t know better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}