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Public perceptions about ‘drink spiking’ wrong A study of almost 100 people who had gone to hospital emergency departments because they believed their drinks to have been spiked has found that only 9 of the cases were ‘plausible’. Published in Emergency Medicine Australasia, the authors said their study “did not identify a single case where a sedative drug was likely to have been illegally placed in a drink in a pub or nightclub”. “Of greater concern was the frequency of illicit drug use and excessive ethanol consumption within the study population,” they said....