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Text messages between Taylor and her friend.

"Apparently, I was very, very white in the face," Taylor said. "I was vomiting and everything."

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"My heart had an extra beat which was quite pronounced,"
Taylor said.

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"I checked myself and obviously found the spot and some blood on my clothes."
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"I got invited to events and I just didn't go out,"
he said.

"It could ruin someone's life. I don't understand why you would need to hit someone with a needle."

"It sounded like slut shaming, to be honest, and it's not the thing you want to hear the day after you get out of hospital."

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"We actually used to joke and say, 'Alright when we get home we've all gotta strip and check for needle marks after clubbing,' … that was our new ritual after hitting the town,"
they said.

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"Drink spiking is far more prevalent. But every month we have people coming to us where they have been spiked by injection."

"There's a move by organisations to have a more up to date sort of standalone offence of spiking of any sort,"
Ms Conibear said.



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