Drug related rape and sexual abuse achieved through drink spiking is forever in the news, and the question as to whether it is really happening or whether it is an urban myth seems to crop up more and more frequently.

Indeed some members of the press claim precisely that.

Others believe the reported incidents are just a tip of the iceberg. Some press have even claimed that we and other workers in the field are inflating figures to inflate their own income. We at the Roofie Foundation have been accused of inflating victim figures in order to achieve the maximum funding – a good theory until you come to realise we are not funded. Our Helpline and other running expenses such as telephone calls, postage, typing and the running of a small office are financed from the occasional donation and from money earned for training, public speaking and other endeavours of our volunteer workers. Even our most severe critics must grant us the entitlement to earn our own keep.

In addition to receiving calls from within the UK, we at the Foundation are constantly contacted by victims and organisations from such places as Australia, United States, Spain and other EU countries and in consequence, are surprised to discover that we seem to be the only agency in the world that operates such a victim oriented helpline.

Founded in 1997 our helpline has now been in operation for several years and, through many talks and conversations with people who claim they have had their drinks spiked and have had sex with people they wouldn’t or didn’t want to have sex with we have gained a unique knowledge and perspective of the issue.

Without wishing to sound our own trumpet this help-line experience makes The Roofie Foundation unique in the knowledge and perspective of drug related assaults from the viewpoint of the victim. Therefore we believe that we can speak about the subject with an informed opinion. We are not that sure of the experience or impartiality of other people and journalists who claim to be experts or write about the subject.

Throughout the following web pages within this section you will find menus that lead to a number of different articles and different opinions from a wide spectrum of sources – they are not complete – unfortunately we do not have a media watcher so we cannot be complete in our coverage. What we are attempting to do here is to publish those we know of that lend serious opinion to the above argument in an attempt to separate truth from media hype, cynicism and vested interests.