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The object of this chapter is to ground the topics of drink spiking and predatory drugging in a recognition of the formidable history of the concern, as well as the varieties of motivations possible for people engaged in chemical gerrymandering of another’s reality. Further, I preview the argument that both myth and reality regarding the topic are inextricably bound up with alcohol and with the vast pharmacopeia that we have come to rely on.
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Karen G. Weiss and Corey J. Colyer, “Roofies, Mickies and Cautionary Tales: Examining the Persistence of the ‘date-rape drug’ Crime Narrative,” Deviant Behavior, 31, 2010, 348–379.
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Nichols quoted in: Jackie Hallifax, “Illegal Sedative Used on Rape Victims,” Los Angeles Times, June 9, 1996. Accessed January 11, 2016. http://articles.latimes.com/1996-06-09/news/mn-13222_1_roofie.
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Edgar Morin, Rumour in Orléans, (New York: Pantheon), 1971; Jan Harold Brunvand, The Mexican Pet: More “New” Urban Legends and Some Old Favorites, (New York: Norton, 1986), 148–156, regarding the newer version involving minors.
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As improved as such sciences are, any extrapolation from them depends on our inferences about the representativeness of their samples. People who report suspicion that they were drugged are a subsample of something—but we are just not sure what.
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Nikki Mascali, “Novel Approach: The Madman Writes,” The Weekender (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania), March 26, 2010; Ozzy Osbourne, I am Ozzy, (New York: Grand Central Publishing), 2009.
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Donovan, P. (2016). Introduction. In: Drink Spiking and Predatory Drugging. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57517-3_1
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