Women in Denver speak out over drink-spiking incidents - GMA

Mia Mainville was astatine a Denver barroom surrounded by friends erstwhile she said a alien enactment drugs successful her portion connected New Year's Eve.

“I was not capable to absorption connected anybody, I was not capable to person afloat power of my body,” Mainville told “Good Morning America.”

Mainville said she was taken to the E.R. by ambulance wherever doctors told her that infirmary toxicology tests are not capable to observe definite illicit drugs, including immoderate that are often utilized to spike drinks, and alternatively referred her to the Denver Police Department.

“The serviceman had told maine that due to the fact that I had told him I wasn’t assaulted, that determination wasn’t a crushed for them to record a report,” said Mainville.

Many day rape drugs, which are immoderate benignant of cause utilized successful a rape oregon a sexual assault, tin marque you consciousness drunk without consuming intoxicant and tin impact memory. Nearly 11 cardinal women successful the United States person been sexually assaulted portion drunk oregon drugged, according to the Office connected Women's Health.

Mainville is not the lone pistillate who is speaking out, respective different women are claiming that constabulary are not taking their cases seriously, according to reports from ABC affiliate KMGH-TV.

“I had astir 70 women scope retired to maine telling maine astir the aforesaid happening had happened to them,” said Mainville.

Women similar Colleen Mitchell, who said she believes she was drugged astatine a Denver barroom successful December.

“I contacted the police,” said Mitchell. “They told maine that fundamentally nary transgression has occurred since I made it location harmless and that nary battle occurred.”

Denver constabulary told ABC News it has launched an interior probe into however some Mainville and Mitchell’s cases were handled, adding, "If an idiosyncratic believes they person consumed a substance that caused them to go unconscious… They should study the incidental to the police.”

“There’s not an antidote for day rape drugs that is wide disposable to the public,” said Dr. Stephanie Widmer, an ABC News aesculapian contributor and toxicologist. “So it’s truly important to question aesculapian attraction close away, peculiarly if you don’t cognize what you’ve been exposed to.”

How to enactment safer successful societal situations

According to the Office of Women's Health, immoderate ways to enactment harmless astatine places similar bars oregon parties include: