A Middle Tennessee woman got tired of seeing victims get blamed — so she built something to fight back.

After her relative's drink was spiked on Broadway — leaving him waking up on the side of the road, then in a stranger's car, then in his hotel room with over $70,000 stolen — Columbia resident Erika Gorman started asking questions. What she found was that this happens far more often than most people realize.

So she built "Spiked in Nash," a website where victims can anonymously report drink-spiking incidents in Nashville — logging where it happened, whether police were called, and whether the bar or restaurant was notified. No shame. No judgment. Just data.

"Every single post, there was a theme where the person who had shared vulnerably what had happened to them was totally shamed and chastised," Gorman said.
And it's not just women, and it's not always about assault. Gorman says she's seeing a pattern of professional men being targeted specifically for financial gain.
The officer who took her family's report told her something chilling: he had just finished taking a nearly identical statement from the call right before theirs.

Gorman hopes the data her site collects will give law enforcement and lawmakers the evidence they need to act. There's already a bipartisan bill in the Tennessee legislature that would make drink spiking a Class D felony and require bars to keep test strips on hand — but it still has a long road through committee.
If you or someone you know has experienced this in Nashville, the site lets you report it safely and privately.
Original reporting by WKRN News 2.