Two nights out on the town ended in terror for a group of students who believe that their drinks were spiked and that one friend was injected with an unknown substance.
Rhianna Poots was enjoying a night out at a city centre bar on January 12 when three of her friends became seriously unwell.
The university student said that two of her friends, who had all been sharing the same drink in a Newcastle bar, started to be violently sick at the venue, with one even needing to be carried out by a bouncer.
Chronicle Live reports that Rhianna, aged 18, said: "When we got home their breathing was raspy and their eyes were dilated. "They could all hear what I was saying to them but they couldn't make sense of it." Rhianna said she took her friends to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead as they became increasingly unwell. "I called an ambulance as my friend Sara Begic was especially bad," she said."Her breathing wasn't right, she was hyperventilating."She wasn't responding and going in and out of consciousness."They weren't any ambulances available but they said; 'you need to get her to hospital now.'The three friends underwent tests to see whether they had been spiked and Rhianna said they are still waiting on the results of blood samples.Sara Begic, 19, from Durham, believes her drink was spiked during the incident and is now worried about going out again following her ordeal.The Northumbria University law student said: "It was horrible."The last thing I remember is sitting with my friends."I knew where I was but I just couldn't do anything."I couldn't move my body and the bouncer carried me out."I feel quite unsafe going out now."But the group of friends said that this isn't the first time they have been spiked while on a
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