The Alcohol Education Trust are so pleased with the recommendations from The Home Affairs Committee on Drink Spiking. Helena Conibear our CEO submitted both written and verbal evidence to the Committee and is thrilled that nearly all of the proposals that the AET suggested are being considered further.
Helena commented, 'The lack of reporting by those who have been victims of drink spiking, the lack of collecting forensic evidence from those who are brave enough to share their ordeal and the lack of prosecutions have allowed the perpetrators of spiking to get away with this crime for far too long.
At last we have some concrete proposals that will address the crime - the reclassification of the most common drugs used for spiking and the move towards drink spiking being a stand alone offence and a focus on collecting evidence will make a huge difference to addressing this scourge on society.'
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