Domestic Drugging: When Your Partner Becomes the Threat

About this episode

This episode uncovers the hidden world of domestic drugging and abuse within relationships.

Home is meant to be the safest place—but for some, it becomes the most dangerous. In this episode, we uncover the hidden world of domestic drugging and abuse within relationships. An investigation by CNN revealed that one chatroom with this horrifying abuse as it's subject, had over 62 million views in just one month. This is REAL. If you'd like to support the show, you can do so here by joining Patreon for £2, thank you: https://patreon.com/REALtruecrimepodcast CNN Report: https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2026/03/world/expose-rape-assault-online-vis-intl/index.html Links to Zoe's social media here: https://www.instagram.com/zoewatts.sms/ If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this podcast, please see the below organisations that offer support, advice and information: https://www.thesurvivorstrust.org/ - For people who have been the victim of sexual abuse (UK) https://www.rainn.org/ - Sexual Abuse Support USA https://www.nasasv.org.au/support-directory - Sexual Abuse Support Australia https://www.rcni.ie/useful-links/ - Sexual Abuse Support Ireland Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Naomi Channell

Topics covered

• domestic drugging
• abuse
• relationships
• safety
• investigation

Keywords

• domestic drugging
• abuse
• relationships
• safety
• CNN investigation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CNN

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