Statistics on Spiking and Drug-Facilitated Assault in the Netherlands

From the thing Glass of Water

Drink spiking is hard to detect without proper drug testing, as the effects of substances such as GHB in the ‘right’ doses are identical to the effects of alcohol intoxication.

Drink spiking is hard to detect without proper drug testing, as the effects of substances such as GHB in the ‘right’ doses are identical to the effects of alcohol intoxication. Meyer, Jerry. Psychopharmacology. 4th ed., Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford UP, 2022 For that reason, there are no national statistics at hand in the Netherlands on incidences of this violation. Although less reliable, the results of research conducted by UKrant in Groningen about students’ encounters with drink spiking are enlightening:

In 3% of the cases, respondents report having been spiked before, 66% being female.
Another 4% suspected to have been spiked, 83% being female.
The absence of authorized statistics on drink spiking makes assessing drug-facilitated sexual assault a lot more difficult, but Amnesty found through quantitative research conducted by I&O Research in the Netherlands that;
15% of female student respondents that are sexual abuse survivors, stated that the assault took place after the perpetrator manipulated their substance use,
and 8% stated to have been spiked.