'I was needle spiked in a nightclub on my first holiday with friends'

Here is the latest breaking news from around the world: 'I was needle spiked in a nightclub on my first holiday with friends'Image source, Taylor CoulterImage caption, Taylor Coulter needed hospital treatment after she was "spiked" with a date rape drug in MagalufByKayleigh Harvey, Scotland and Calum Watson, ScotlandPublished4 hours agoTaylor Coulter was returning from the toilets in Magaluf's famous Bananas nightclub when a stranger bumped into her on the stairs. "I felt a sharp shooting pain in my arm. He was very apologetic - more apologetic than he had to be.

Then I felt a liquid run through my whole body. "The 18-year-old, from Port Glasgow in Inverclyde, had just 20 seconds to get help before she was incapacitated by the drug she had been "spiked" with using a needle. "It just kind of took over me," she recalls.

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Her friends were nearby and she managed to reach them in time. Her best friend helped her to the toilet where she was sick, then the group of Scottish teenagers carried her back to her hotel. Figure caption, Taylor says the spiking incident in the nightclub has shaken her confidenceThe drug has wiped much of Taylor's memory of what happened after the attack, which took place in the Mallorcan resort on 21 June, but her friends have helped fill in the blanks.

"They were on the phone to my mum and dad, and their mums and dads who were finding out the best advice which was a cold water shock shower. "Other friends were on the phone to doctors, the hospital, things like that. "At the hospital, blood tests revealed she had been injected with gamma-hydroxybutyrate, better known as GHB, as well as an anti-depressant drug.

GHB is a powerful sedative that causes extreme sleepiness and loss of inhibitions - and it erases the memory of what has happened under its influence. It is notorious as a date rape drug. Whilst the GHB would eventually work its way out of her system, doctors were worried about the potential for blood infections from the needle.

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Taylor, who is a rising football star, is now on anti-viral medications to protect against HIV or hepatitis - but these drugs have themselves taken their toll. Image source, Taylor CoulterImage caption, Taylor plays for Greenock Morton Women FCNearly three weeks on from her ordeal in Magaluf, the treatment has left her struggling to walk any great distance and unable to train with her current team, Greenock Morton Women FC. "It's had a massive impact on things that were easy for me like running and cycling.

I'm just so tired when I try and do any sort of exercise," said Taylor. The side-effects are a double blow for Taylor who is due to move to America next month to take up a football scholarship at Louisiana State University. The trip to the Spanish resort was Taylor's first holiday abroad without her parents, an all-girl rite of passage celebration with 16 friends after leaving secondary school.

"My parents weren't going to let me go on holiday originally.

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