19th December 2023
This Autumn we have ensured that over 100 settings including Colleges, Universities, Sexual Health Clinics and Minor Injury Units (MIU’s) have received posters, awareness cards, drink testing kits and online resources to raise awareness of drink spiking. The resources also offer advice about how victims can be supported through local services and Victim Support and also encourage them to report the crime either anonymously via Crime Stoppers or to the Police via 101.
Following extensive feedback from the nurses and frontline workers that we have trained this year as to what else is needed, we are thrilled to say that we have now set up a simple SMS message service that can be forwarded to anyone who believes that they might have been spiked via:https://life-stuff.org/spiking-what-to-do/This can be added to advice websites, student services and most importantly be used as a simple signposting service by frontline staff who support those seeking help.