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Yeah, I want to be careful here as spiking does absolutely happened and I don’t want to trivialise anyones experience or doubt anyones victimisation. But having worked at a busy city centre bar and having seen this come up I would encourage OP and his GF to honestly and thoroughly scrutinise not only how much his GF had to drink but what she drank and how quickly she drank it. I wouldn’t even mention this normally but 3 times in a row is so stupidly unlikely that it is more than likely something else besides spiking. In my years working in a bar, twice people reported being spiked and the circumstances were almost exactly the same both times. Both times they were super young like OP and likely didn’t have that much experience going out, and both time they absurdly underestimated how much they had to drink. In both instances they said they had about 3 drinks and both times when we looked back on it they had 6+ in pretty short order. Obviously bartenders do their best not to over serve but if you are at a crowded bar with 4 or 5 bartenders and you are drinking quick enough that you aren’t showing your level of impairment you can absolutely over drink even in a bar setting. Many bars now keep really careful track of exactly how many drinks a party orders just to protect themselves, I would reckon a place like Firewater likely does so OP and his GF could contact them and say they were concerned and they might be able to shed some light on the situation. The two times it came up at my work the people involved said they only had a couple drinks and were then so out of it they had embarrassed themselves or acted totally out of character when in reality the had 6 cocktails in 90 minutes and got too drunk…. Happens to the best of us but doesn’t necessarily mean there was any foul play.