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posted by janrinok on Tuesday September 20 2016, @08:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'll-drink-to-that dept.

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Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6440589/Date-rape-drink-spiking-an-urban-legend.html

Widespread spiking of drinks with date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol and GHB is an "urban legend" fuelled by young women unwilling to accept they have simply consumed too much alcohol, academics believe. A study of more than 200 students revealed many wrongly blamed the effects of a "bad night out" on date-rape drugs, when they had just drunk excessively.

Many are in "active denial" that drinking large amounts of alcohol can leave them "incoherent and incapacitated", the Kent University researchers concluded. Young women's fears about date-rape drugs are so ingrained that students mistakenly think it is a more important factor in sexual assault than being drunk, taking drugs or walking alone at night.

The study, published in the British Journal of Criminology, found three-quarters of students identified drink spiking as an important risk – more than alcohol or drugs. More than half said they knew someone whose drink had been spiked.

But despite popular beliefs, police have found no evidence that rape victims are commonly drugged with such substances, the researchers said.

Dr Adam Burgess from the university's School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, said: "Young women appear to be displacing their anxieties about the consequences of consuming what is in the bottle on to rumours of what could be put there by someone else.


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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by NotSanguine on Wednesday September 21 2016, @05:27AM

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Wednesday September 21 2016, @05:27AM (#404663) Homepage Journal

    Yes. To the same extent that you are responsible for the incorrect interpretation of a statement at the pub being perceived as an insult that gets you a fist in the face.

    Have I said anything insulting? I don't think so. I expressed my opinion and someone disagreed with me rather nastily. Did I respond with insults? Nope. As such, your analogy falls rather flat.

    Or are you calling me out? If so, how mature of you.

    As I mentioned previously, If you dislike what I have to say or how I say it, you are under no obligation to read what I write..

    What's more, I'm perfectly willing to to elucidate (as I did repeatedly, but apparently it was what I said, not how I said it that was a problem for them), but there's no reason for nastiness or negativity, is there? After all, this isn't a pub, and while I don't know about you, I'm not an angry drunk and have managed to go nearly fifty years without getting into a bar fight (although some of my companions put me in situations that have, at times, threatened such a minor achievement).

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