Multiple things can be true at the same time. Do Downtown Nashville bars have a problem with patrons being drugged? Certainly. Are they making efforts to recognize and prevent this criminal act ? Absolutely. Almost 50 Nashville bars already trained under the Safe Bar I nitiative , a bystander-intervention-based educational training program. Read Scene reporter Hannah Herner's story from 2022 about this for background.

But recent ly, there’s been quite a bit of buzz on TikTok and various Nashville visitors groups that it might actually be the bartenders who are often responsible for drugging their own customers. That has created quite an uproar among other online groups, including the Nashville Hospitality Professionals page on Facebook.

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