Celebrities, students and young people have shared their terrifying experiences of having their drink spiked or being spiked by injection as it was revealed there were 5,000 reports to police last year.
Mims Davies MP, 46, explained she had to be carried home after finding an unidentifiable black substance in her glass while out drinking with friends in Haywards Heath, West Sussex.
It was a shocking phenomenon - a spate of reports of women being injected with date-rape drugs. Now a criminologist who s studied the evidence poses an uncomfortable question.
The arrests in Sussex follow hundreds of reports of women being spiked by needle at late night venues, prompting boycotts of venues around the country dubbed The Girls Night In .