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What on Earth Is Going on With Ness Spiking?

Becca machanelly started a university this year when she was just 17. It was her first time away from home and everything was new. After two years of lock downs, reports of needle spiking meant the atmosphere was terrifying. A group of women organized a country wide boy cot of night clubs. The movement was called girls nigt inn,. Women across over 50 towns and cities in the u k vowed to stop going out until piking was taken seriously. In benes in edinburgh, that boycot took place on october 20, eighth, the same night as becka's eighteenth birthday. And i cannot remember a single thing after that is etched in my memory. That moment

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