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Emergency Medicine Australasia
Formerly known as Emergency MedicineEdited by:
Anthony F.T. Brown
Emergency Medicine Australasia publishes peer-reviewed articles, reports, reviews and opinions on the research and clinical practice of emergency care.
Emergency Medicine Australasia, with its strong interest in the effectiveness of emergency diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, is the journal of choice for anyone concerned with improving patient care in the pre-hospital and hospital emergency settings. As the leading journal in the specialty of emergency medicine in the Asia Pacific region, Emergency Medicine Australasia is committed to the furthering of scientific research, the support of educational objectives, and the dissemination of information to the emergency medicine community.
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Prospective study of 101 patients with suspected drink spiking
Paul Quigley, Dania M Lynch, Mark Little, Lindsay Murray, Ann-Maree Lynch and Sean J O'Halloran
'Drink spiking' refers to drugs or ethanol being added to a drink (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) without the conset of the person consuming it. It is purportedly done for purposes, such as sexual assault, rape, assault and robbery.
The public perception is that sedative drugs are placed (usually by men) into the drinks of others (usually women). In recent years, there appears to have been an increase in the number of cases being reported within the media, although the anecdotal reports outnumber formal complaints to the police by an estimated factor of 10.
Of the 97 alledged drink spiking cases included, there were only 9 plausible cases. We 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.
At follow-up there were no major sequelae and no police prosecutions. Thirty five per cent of patients still believed that they had been a victim of drink spiking irrespective of the results.
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