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"Spiked Drink" seems to be one of the alarming problems of the day where a person is hiked through drugs in the drink. The practice of spiking the drink with drugs like Rohypnol, GHB or ketamine or extra shots of alcohol was said to have been happening since 90s and it appears to be true, according to a recent research.

Researchers from University of South Carolina led by Dr Suzanne C. Swan conducted a survey among 6,064 students from three different universities to find whether or not the practice of spiking a person's drink is true. It was revealed in the findings that about 462 students were victims of the problem that faced 539 incidents of being drugged overall and about 83 students reported that they either drugged someone or aware of someone drugging other person.

Overall 7.8 percent of students were reported to be victims of the problem and 1.4 percent were found to have drugged others or aware of such issues. The research also revealed that women were the ones affected much by spiked drink and the motive behind most incidents was sexual reasons. About 21 percent of men were also found to be victims of drugging while men reported the motive of spiking someone's drink was just a fun.

"Even if a person is drugging someone else simply 'for fun' with no intent of taking advantage of the drugged person, the drugger is still putting a drug in someone else's body without their consent - and this is coercive and controlling behavior," Swan said, reported Mail Online.

There were also claims that spiking drinks were done to make someone sleep or calm down. The researchers were however skeptic if the claims of the victims are facts since people could have drank a lot by themselves to believe that they were served spiked drinks.

"We have no way of knowing if the drugging victims were actually drugged or not, and many of the victims were not certain either," the researchers wrote, according to Eurekalert. "It is possible that some respondents drank too much, or drank a more potent kind of alcohol than they were accustomed to."