The Spiking Crime Prevention & Education Center is an education and research-based prevention platform that connects accurate information, prevention education, research, campaigns, and field response standards. It turns a hidden and unfamiliar crime into everyday safety education that anyone can talk about and prepare for.
The center aims to build a spiking prevention education and campaign model that begins in Korea and can become a global standard, while expanding spiking from a personal fear into an everyday safety issue that society must prevent and respond to together.
Spiking is not simply a problem that can be avoided by “being careful.” It can be difficult to recognize before the victim notices something is wrong, and some substances can disappear from the body quickly. That is why early protection, evidence preservation, and bystander intervention standards are extremely important.
Spiking can occur in many environments, including drinks, food, injections, inhaled products, e-cigarettes, gatherings, festivals, university events, and nightlife spaces. Prevention requires not only personal awareness, but also bystander observation, field response standards, and repeated education at the organizational level.
The center does not treat spiking only through sensational incidents or vague fear-based language. It organizes practical standards that can be used in the field: how to recognize warning signs, who to connect with, and what to preserve and record.
The United Kingdom has publicly addressed spiking at the level of Parliament, police, universities, and local communities, and has led discussions on concrete prevention measures ranging from objective data collection to victim support, forensic testing, and the creation of safer spaces.
The Spiking Crime Prevention & Education Center began from this international awareness of the problem and the flow of practical field response. The center combines the prevention-tool experience accumulated by the UK-based CYD®(Check Your Drink Ltd) with the campaign planning capabilities of public-interest media Ribbon Line(RIBBON LINE), with the aim of building a systematic prevention education and campaign model that begins in Korea and can become a global standard.
The UK Parliament’s Home Affairs Committee report pointed out that spiking can remain an invisible crime due to lack of understanding, lack of data, and insufficient victim support. It also emphasized the need to strengthen reporting, investigation, victim support, and venue safety.
CYD®(Check Your Drink Ltd) is a UK-based drink safety leader. It was founded in 2014 by Katie Burrington out of concern over drink spiking and the safety of her children, and developed drink spiking tests for detecting GHB and ketamine.
Through collaboration with CYD®, the center teaches the proper use, limitations, and result interpretation standards of prevention tools. Through collaboration with public-interest media Ribbon Line(RIBBON LINE), it strengthens the foundation for public-interest messages and campaign content to spread. Based on this, the center aims to build prevention campaigns and response standards that can be verified in Korean field settings and expanded into a global-standard prevention education model.
Prevention tools such as test strips are supporting tools that complement education and field response capability. The center’s core mission is not the sale of tools, but the creation of education content, research materials, campaign standards, and field response manuals that help people accurately understand spiking and respond together.
We provide spiking prevention education and bystander response training tailored to elementary, middle, and high schools, universities, organizations, and event sites.
We analyze domestic and international crime trends, overseas policy materials, and field needs to organize Korea-based prevention standards and educational grounds.
We develop posters, card news, brochures, and campaign kits that can be used immediately in schools, local communities, festivals, and event sites.
We educate people on the use, limitations, and result interpretation standards of prevention tools and help them use these tools responsibly in connection with field manuals.
The center reflects the hidden nature of spiking, the issue of underreporting, and the importance of early evidence preservation in its education content, based on overseas official materials and research data.
The 2025 Drinkaware Monitor estimates that nearly one million UK adults may have experienced drink spiking within the previous 12 months.
In the same survey, the rate of police reporting was only 23.4%. Memory gaps, distrust of police, doubts about whether reporting will be effective, and difficulty securing evidence can all contribute to underreporting.
Some spiking substances can disappear from the body within 12 hours. Therefore, in suspected cases, education on rapid protection, medical connection, documentation, and evidence preservation is important.
The center’s education does not end with the message “be careful because it is dangerous.” It is designed to help people recognize risk, connect in the field, and build a culture that protects victims.
We accurately understand the definition, types, latest methods, warning signs, and meaning of non-consensual interference in spiking.
In suspected situations, we do not leave the suspected victim alone and connect them quickly to medical support, security, police, and field safety staff.
We spread a social safety net in which responsibility is not shifted to victims and bystanders and organizations protect people together.
The center’s activities are not simple information delivery. They focus on creating prevention systems that can actually work in schools, organizations, local communities, and event sites.
We teach the concept of spiking, risk situations, prevention behavior, bystander response, and reporting or medical connection standards according to each audience’s level.
We organize prevention content and standards suited to Korean realities based on international cases, educational materials, policy trends, and field opinions.
We spread prevention messages through posters, card news, brochures, participatory booths, school and festival campaign tools.
We educate people on the use, limitations, and result interpretation standards of drink spiking prevention tools, and enhance field-applicable prevention standards and educational materials through collaboration with CYD®.
Spiking prevention education is not education that blames victims. It is a process of building a social safety net where people recognize risk and respond together.
The responsibility for the crime lies with the offender who interfered without consent. Prevention education is not about controlling victims, but about creating standards to protect people together.
We do not stimulate anxiety or exaggerate unverified information. We clearly explain risks and present action standards for each situation.
We develop lecture materials, card news, posters, and response checklists that can be used immediately in schools, local governments, organizations, and event sites.
Prevention tools are not a complete solution. The center teaches not only how to use them, but also their limitations, result interpretation, and standards for connection to reporting and medical support.
Spiking prevention cannot be completed by one center alone. Prevention culture expands more broadly and sustainably when schools, local governments, companies, event operators, public organizations, and overseas public-interest partners work together.
When accurate information, repeated education, field preparation, and social awareness improvement work together, spiking prevention can expand beyond personal caution into a social safety culture.
