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An injection of fear

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The New Variant in the Epidemic of Drink Spiking Targeting Young Women

Lucy sent her daughter a message asking what she'd heard, and then she sent me this very fiery and heartfelt explanation of how she felt the lives of herself and her friends were kind of circumscribed. Lucy posted screen shots of it to her twitter account. The caption to her post called needle spiking a herrific new variant in the epidemic of drink spiking targeting young women. Her tweet went viral. But i think it was more on the wider of thinking about young women generally. We keep our phones on and in our hands. Girls are wearing denhim jackets because the material is harder to pierce. We simply accept the latest horror and come up with new ways to protect ourselves

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