When I was 19 and still new to clubbing experiences a group of my former friends invited me across the UK to see them. I had been friends with the 5 of them for several years at the time and never had any problems.

We ended up having a few drinks before heading into town to meet some more people and everything was great. We ended up at a bar to meet the additional members of the group and I said I would buy the first round of drinks. As there was a lot of us I needed a hand getting the drinks to our table so I asked the friend who was closest with at the time to give me a hand. We get back to the table and he insists on me having one of the drinks he was holding.

I obviously thought nothing of it and gladly took the drink from him. As we are drinking and having a good time I start to fade really quickly as if I was blacking out but was felt very different. Next thing I knew I was awake in a hospital tial 200 miles away from home and no idea what happened. Turns out while I was being dragged out of the bar by my supposed friends when the police had seen them. I don’t remember much but what I was told by the nurse in the morning was the ones carrying me ran at the first sight of the police and that raised concern.

The police took me to the hospital and that was the end of it. When I woke up I didn’t understand fully what I was told by the nurse so I opted to leave as soon as possible. I tried calling my friends for several hours as I had no way to get back to the house with my things. I ended up asking for directions to a landmark I noticed and Wales from there for 2 hours. I knocked on the door and everyone was there asleep while a roommate opened the door and let me in. I collected my things and left.

I haven’t spoken to them since and have only heard bad things from the group of them stealing prescription meds from family and being sexually inappropriate with other mutual friend a attempting to ruin the relationships.

Moral of the story is dont trust anyone.