Roofied On The Rise

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Drink spiking is on the rise and extremely underreported. More than 90% of people who suspected their drink was spiked didn’t report the incident to the hospital, police, or venue. Nearly 11 million women in the US have been sexually assaulted while drunk or drugged. Drink spiking is so common yet so underreported due to lack of awareness, shame/embarrassment, memory loss, fear of retaliation, lack of evidence and or legal/social barriers. 50% of women and men surveyed had their drink spiked at least once. 37% had their drinks spiked multiple times. 72% of people don’t know what to do in a spiking situation and when victims DO go to the hospital they’re often turned away unless there are signs of rape or assault. These drugs are sheer assault weapons and can be used for serious crimes. They are very expensive to screen so while you can get screened for marijuana in almost every medical facility, most hospitals don’t have screens for some of the most common date rape drugs: Rohypnol, Ketamine and GHB. We’ll hear from several people who say they were roofied and it was way worse than any hangover – symptoms of vomiting, blacking out, low pulse, weak heart rate and shallow breathing. We’ll feature a test strip demo and other solutions.

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0:00.0	Drugs being slipped into drinks commonly called getting roofy.
0:04.0	I hit my head on the bathtub.
0:06.0	It goes from zero to ten very quickly.
0:08.0	It's a way to do sexual assault, physical assault, robbery.
0:13.0	These pictures are me in a GHB-induced coma.
0:17.0	I have no recollection as the way I happen.
0:19.0	Especially being a dude, It's a shameful experience.
0:21.6	The solution to save people from getting their drinks spiked.
0:25.6	Well, imagine going to a party or a bar and then waking up the next morning without your car keys, wallet, phone, or any recollection of how you got home.
0:46.3	You're violently ill and find out from friends that you were acting completely out of character.
0:53.3	Then you go to the hospital because you know something is off.
0:58.8	It isn't just that you drank too much.
1:01.2	You aren't just hung over.
1:03.5	And what you're feeling is way worse than anything you've ever had before.
1:09.0	People all over America are flooding social media with similar stories of date-raped drugs
1:16.6	being slipped into their drinks, commonly called getting roofied.
1:21.6	Take a look.
1:22.6	Two years ago on Halloween, I got roofied.
1:25.6	I was roofied at a music festival.
1:27.9	Fortunately, I do have some experience in this topic because I've been roofied twice.
1:31.3	How common it is for people to say that they were roofied or drugged in that establishment
1:37.1	and had never really gotten sick like I did that first time I got roofied.
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