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An injection of fear

The Slow Newscast

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Becca's Reaction to the Drink Spiking Scandal Is a Story About Trust

This is a story about trust. Becca ultimately trusted adam's expertese, and that helped her contextralize what happened to her. And that's a thing women haven't been feeling safe because their trust in the police and in men is fundamentally broken. The murder of sarah everard was the worst able example of a system that is stacked against women - it feeds the fear. We just don't know how many women are being spiked every year. I can say now with confidence that i don't think an epidemic of needle spiking happened last autumn. But if it isn't already obvious, i still think thi story matters immensely because we need to repair the trust, and because

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