Warning or funeral plan

[village_person]

Stereosonic 2015: Woman dies after music festival at Sydney Olympic Park

THE 25-year-old woman who died after the Stereosonic music festival at Sydney Olympic Park is believed to have taken an ecstasy tablet and mixed it with MDMA while a 22-year-old woman has been discharged from hospital, after earlier being placed in an induced coma.

Paramedics rushed young pharmacist Sylvia Choi of Oyster Bay to Concord Hospital where she died last night.

She is believed to have taken an ecstasy tablet but also may have mixed MDMA in a bottle of water.

“These drugs are made by criminals in back yards,” Assistant Commissioner Menilli said today.

“It’s like opening a bottle of bleach and swallowing it.

“People have to get out of the mentality that you have to take drugs to enjoy a concert.”

The two women were not at the concert together.

Ms Choi’s friends have told police they ingested a “tablet” but police have not said which drug they are suspected of taking.

http://www.news.com.au

If the report is true the warnings will go unheeded. If a chemist is prepared to swallow chemicals of an unknown origin perhaps the best plan is to insist on risk takers to have a fully funded funeral plan sorted out.

[colic2bullsgirlore]

and how is that illicit drug prohibition going for you and your family Icy?? ...a bit slow over there this morning?

[icyfroth]

Why don't you come back over?

[icyfroth]

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@djlukjilly wrote:

What a tragedy, there's no end to stupidity. Whatever happened to having fun without a chemical enhancer?

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Danger is nature's way of eliminating stupid ppl.

[jimmy*part4]

These designer drugs came about due to stiff penalties for possesion and sale of "standard" drugs.

Proof that long jail terms for drug offenses don't work...our jails are bursting at the seams.

Drugs from New Zealand flooded the world market. One guy, now a multi millionaire, would take an illegal drug and alter 1 molecule...creating a legal drug. These new designer drugs are much more dangerous, even if only taken once. I think the loop holes that allow this have been closed in NZ, so they just move the operation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/02/new-zealand-drug-law_n_3696809.html

Prohibition has failed every single time. Alcohol is just as dangerous, if not more dangerous.

New Zealand Drug Designer Presents Autumn Winter Collection:

[bluecat*dancing]

Some still slip through, though.

My thoughts are with this young woman's poor friends and family. Such a sad waste of a young life. Taking drugs, legal or illegal, to enhance one's experience  is a part of society and  probably has been since time immemorial and is unlikely to change anytime soon. The illicit drugs that around these days are scary.

[bluecat*dancing]

I agree, prohibition doesn't work. It only makes whatever is being prohibited more desirable.

[icyfroth]

Drugs are readily available, illegal or not.

That's the problem.

Drugs freely available and young ppl with plenty of money to buy them.

Same with alcohol.

[village_person]

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@amalan11 wrote:

I Was stunned to hear she was a qualified  pharmicist . 

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I'd like to know who sat her exams for her. It's obvious she didn't sit for any exams given she had a non-functioning brain.

[village_person]

Adelaide Stereosonic music festival: Two critically ill after man's 'drug-related death'

Two people at the Stereosonic music festival in Adelaide were taken to hospital in a critical condition, the same day a man died after attending the event, police have said.

Police said a 20-year-old man was taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital at midday on Saturday after suffering from a medical episode at the event in Bonython Park.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-06/two-critical-in-hospital-stereosonic-music-festival/7005026

EBay Sage Village_Person said: If the report is true the warnings will go unheeded. If a chemist is prepared to swallow chemicals of an unknown origin perhaps the best plan is to insist on risk takers to have a fully funded funeral plan sorted out.

Issuing warnings is a waste of time.

[colic2bullsgirlore]

Can you hear the mainstream media screaming out re alcohol and Big pharma's DAILY contribution

... listen to the  banshee wail....

http://theconversation.com/australias-daily-alcohol-toll-15-deaths-and-430-hospitalisations-29906

Australia’s daily alcohol toll: 15 deaths and 430 hospitalisations July 31, 2014 2.12pm AEST

Alcohol

Alcohol is the most widely used drug in Australia.

86.2% of Australians aged 14 years and over have drunk alcohol one or more times in their lives1.

37.3% of Australians aged 14 years and over consume alcohol on a weekly basis1.

The age group with the greatest number of Australians who drink daily is 70+ years1.

Around 1 in 5 (18.2%) Australians over 14 drink at levels that put them at risk of alcohol-related harm over their lifetime1.

Around 1 in 6 (15.6%) people aged 12 years or older had consumed 11 or more standard drinks on a single drinking occasion in the past 12 months1.

1 in 4 women drink alcohol while pregnant, even though the Australian alcohol guidelines recommend not drinking during this time1.

$7b is generated by alcohol-related tax. But alcohol costs society $15.3b annually3.
Alcohol caused more than twice as many deaths (3,494) than road accidents (1,600) in 20054.
1 in 10 workers say they have experienced the negative effects of a co-worker’s use of alcohol.

Benzodiazepines

4.5% of Australians aged 14 years and over have used tranquillisers/sleeping pills (including benzodiazepines) for non-medical purposes one or more times in their life1.

1.6% of Australians aged 14 years and over have used tranquillisers (including benzodiazepines) for non-medical purposes in the previous 12 months1.

Benzodiazepines are the second most common drug involved in ambulance attendances in Victoria, after alcohol

Analgesics

Young People

Young Australians (aged 14–24) first try analgesics for non-medical purposes at 15.0 years on average1.

Analgesics are the most commonly used drug (licit or illicit) among 12–17 year olds. By the age of 13, 95% of this age group have used analgesics (mostly for headaches and/or cold and flu symptoms).

4% of 12-17 year olds take analgesics from home without permission and 3% buy them

Non-opioid analgesics (such as paracetamol) are the third most common drug involved in ambulance attendances, following alcohol and benziodiazepines.

Meth/amphetamine (including ice)

Ice (crystal methamphetamine) is the 4th most common drug involved in ambulance attendances, following alcohol,

benziodiazapines and non-opioid analgesics.