Forensic certainty for the institutions that need to act.
The obligation around drink-spiking detection is shifting from optional to expected. DrugLab118 provides the validated tools and the technical evidence that procurement officers, welfare directors, and operational teams need to act with confidence.
The new spiking offence needs evidence to work. Your institution needs infrastructure.
Drink spiking disproportionately affects university-age women in social environments — bars, clubs, student events, and on campus. The UK government's university spiking working group, chaired by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter, is defining best practice, and institutions that cannot demonstrate prevention infrastructure are increasingly exposed on safeguarding and reputational risk.
DrugLab118 provides the validated detection tools and the technical evidence that procurement officers, welfare directors, and student unions need to act with confidence — backed by published data they can cite.
Duty of care is no longer optional. Licensing compliance now requires it.
Following changes to Section 182 guidance on the Licensing Act 2003, licensing authorities are imposing requirements on venues to demonstrate spiking safeguards — and have already reduced operating hours for venues that fail to meet the standard. Compliance is no longer theoretical.
A visible testing programme is both a compliance tool and a deterrent: venues with visible safety measures see measurable reductions in spiking incidents. DrugLab118 provides formats designed for the bar environment, with co-branding and white-label options for multi-venue operators.
Detection that feeds the evidence chain, not the bin.
DrugLab118's DrugDetective provides law enforcement with field-deployable, forensic-grade surface and substance detection. Results in seconds. No laboratory delay. It is deployed during stop-and-search to detect illicit substances on people, possessions, and places.
The Home Office is actively researching which commercially available detection kits work — and which do not. DrugLab118 is the company that publishes the data to answer that question, and our products have been trialled in operational policing and customs settings.
Police forces, councils, and major venues already rely on DrugLab118.
Talk to us about detection for your institution.
Whether you are evaluating a campus safety programme, assessing licensing compliance, or building an evidence base for policy — we are ready to brief you.
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