INTERVIEW. “Needle spiking may have been excessive panic, but it can give people ideas during the festivals” | Inland

At the Pride, in the stadium of KV Mechelen and at the teenage festival We R Young: it has been raining needle spiking for a week. Are people being effectively drugged en masse, or is it mass hysteria? And what does this mean for the festival summer, which is just around the corner? Drug researcher Tina Van Havere (HoGent) answers the most important questions.