Needle spiking
Needle spiking (also called injection spiking) is the surreptitious injection of drugs into someone. A needle spiking moral panic emerged in 2021 following reports, initially in the United Kingdom and Ireland, of people having been spiked in this way, with medical sociologist Robert Bartholomew characterizing the phenomenon as a social panic; social scientist Marko Ković, who researches conspiracy theories, suggesting it was a psychogenic mass distress in which those effected believe they've been attacked but haven't; and folklorist Veronique Campion-Vincent characterizing it as a "flap" (defined by Michael Goss as "an unusual, dramatic burst of excitement centered upon some anomalous and possibly threatening report that generates others of the same variety").