BBC's EastEnders is to run a new storyline to raise awareness of “alarming rates” of spiking in the UK.
Her friends eventually become concerned after realising her behaviour does not match up with the small amount of alcohol she has consumed. The soap has worked with spiking charities Stamp Out Spiking and WithYou in order to ensure the storyline is portrayed as “accurately and as sensitively as possible”.executive producer Chris Clenshaw said: “With incidents of spiking rising at alarming rates across the UK in recent years, we chose to explore this issue with Anna Knight who represents the demographic most affected by spiking.