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Weekly Destination Thread - Cuba

I think I was roofied, cut my trip short. Advice? I think I was roofied, cut my trip short. Advice?
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I was 2 weeks into my 8 week backpackng trip. Spent time in Amsterdam/nearby cities, and was 3 days into Brussels. At this point I got a groove going for meeting people, exploring cities and just otherwise having a good time. Yesterday I got a group going of maybe 10-15 people at a bar to watch a soccer semi-final. I usually am not a bar person or a drinking person, but had two drinks (two for one happy hour 12 Euro).

That said, my memory of everything after is gone. Apparently me and some of the guys went to another location where we had hookah, I have absolutely no memory of this. I apparently was so out of it one of the guys walked me back to my hostel and had staff keep an eye on me.

Next thing you know, I came to in a train station, my phone, gone, money gone, my sweater shirt dirty AF. I don't think I was robbed, but I found a 50, 20 and 5 euro bills in my pocket completely torn to pieces. I vaguely remember two things, me trying to get into a hotel I wasn't staying in and violently shaking a door to get in somewhere. When I came to in the train station, I stumbled around until I was able to get out, I calmly asked a bunch of strangers to help me google map to my hostel. After about 40 minutes I got to my hostel and immediately went to to front desk to ask for another key, there I was told about being drunk and informed that I left despite repeated attempts to encourage me to stay. My key was apparently with the staff.

One of the guys that brought me back to my hostel met with me shortly after to help me with some details, fed me, helped me get a taxi to the airport, but, I am completely shook that I cannot remember anything, my flight home isnt until 12 hours~ but I just immediately left the city and went to the airport. Things still feel very slow, even typing this, talking, I feel like everything is slurry. I dont know if it's worth filing a police report?

I don't know if someone did this to me, or I drank something intended for someone else but this was such a wild thing that I am experiencing, I don't even know how to make sense of everything. Is there anything I should be doing? I am just hydrating right now. I do not feel hungover, just very down