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# spiking

Last year
2023
'Worrying increase' in spiking incidents reported to gardaí as figures nearly double
All time
More than half of reported spiking incidents in 2021 allegedly involved needles
'Relatively few' incidents of injection spiking, say emergency medicine doctors
Police in Belfast city centre launch investigation into four alleged drink spikings