My dd is home for the weekend for a wedding and she told me a story that makes me proud of her and her friends. She's in a small college town in southern Virginia, with an all-male school in the next town. Naturally students from dd's school are invited to frat parties at the all-male school. Dd is a "designated rider" with her sorority -- the "des. rider" goes along with the designated driver so the driver won't be alone on the country roads with possibly drunk people in the car.
Anyway, she and the driver got there and met up with another girl from their school. They were just standing around outside enjoying the nice weather when they saw a girl being half carried out of the frat house by FIVE guys! She was stumbling and not walking on her own and the guys were carrying her and heading off towards the woods in back of the house. Dd and her friends looked at each other and took off after the guys, and blocked them and told them to get lost.
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They took the girl back to their school, but then decided that she was acting odd. I mean, as designated drive and rider they've seen a lot of drunk people. So they took her to the ER instead, and it turns out she'd been given the date-rape drug ("roofied"...but I can't think of its real name at the moment)!
Dd says that all the sororities at her school give detailed classes on how to avoid those drugs, but this girl isn't in a sorority. I don't know if the school does them in general. But the sorority girls are taught how to avoid them. Yay for the sororities.
The girl said later that a "nice guy" had brought her a beer. uh-huh. Most likely that was it because she said she didn't leave her drink sitting around anywhere.
Yay for my dd and her friends, and all the other girls who look out for each other.
Stress again to your girls/young women about NEVER letting your drink sit around or even letting anyone else fetch you one unless you know and trust that person.