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KILLED BY LSD Brit gap-year teen died after taking LSD and suffering ‘bizarre’ hallucination that saw him throw himself into bushes on camping trip in Canadian wilderness
The Sun
By Ellie Cambridge
19th April 2017, 5:37 pm
With (some brain-dead) reader comments
A TEEN travelling around Canada on a gap-year trip died from a fatal dose of LSD weeks before he was due to start studying marine zoology, an inquest heard today. Henry Suggitt, 19, was camping in the Canadian wilderness in 2015 when he took the psychedelic drug and suffered “bizarre” hallucinations which saw him throw himself into bushes before he died.
He had returned to the UK from a trip travelling in south-east Asia earlier that year, and went to north America shortly afterwards to visit friends made on the previous trip. He had visited friends in Regina, Saskatchewan, before moving east to Winnipeg to meet up with his friend Bryce Duncan, whose evidence the coroner summarised to the inquest. Surrey Coroner Darren Stewart said: “It would appear that on September 2, 2015 Henry and Mr Duncan both got up to go a cabin in the countryside.
“They arrived in the cabin about early afternoon at which point they consumed LSD. It was about 2.30pm to 3pm. There are no details on the amount of LSD they consumed. They had been drinking beer and continued to drink beer at the same time as they consumed the LSD. They subsequently went for a half-hour walk which took them out to a look-out point in a small clearing of the Canadian countryside. It was about that point in time, 35 minutes or so after leaving the cabin, they started to feel the effects of the drug. At that point they were just hanging out, drinking beers, laughing and chatting while looking out at a view over a valley. Subsequent to this Henry then started to go downhill and then laid down on the grass and look up at the sky. He then started to act in a bizarre fashion. Mr Duncan identified mood swings and behaviour in a manner which was bizarre, almost demonstrating a manicness – running around, throwing himself on the ground and throwing himself in trees and bushes.”
Mr Stewart described to the inquest how Mr Suggitt suddenly stopped his exertions and lay still on the ground, much to the concern of his friend – who tried to find mobile phone signal to call an ambulance. “He was in the process of doing so when he heard Henry scream out and became silent,” Coroner Stewart explained. Mr Duncan then returned to where Henry was and found him unconscious. He tried to resuscitate him but was unsuccessful. He then administered Henry’s EpiPen, thinking it was an allergic reaction, but that was to no avail."
Mr Duncan then went off to call paramedics, who arrived sometime later, but were unable to resuscitate him and pronounced him dead at the scene.
A post-mortem examination carried out by pathologist Dr Susan Phillips in Winnipeg on September 3 gave the medical cause of death as LSD toxicity – something which Mr Stewart agreed with. He was found to have 1.3 micrograms of LSD in his system, for every microlitre of blood and 31mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. The coroner said that although there was no indication of the quantity of LSD taken, he acknowledged the post-mortem examination showed Mr Suggitt’s death was due to the drug and recorded a conclusion of drug-related death. His parents have raised more than £20,000 for the Surrey-based Eikon Charity, who go in schools and inform children about the dangers of taking drugs, even in isolated incidents.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3366552/british-gap-year-student-lsd-death-canada-hallucination/
The Sun
By Ellie Cambridge
19th April 2017, 5:37 pm
With (some brain-dead) reader comments
A TEEN travelling around Canada on a gap-year trip died from a fatal dose of LSD weeks before he was due to start studying marine zoology, an inquest heard today. Henry Suggitt, 19, was camping in the Canadian wilderness in 2015 when he took the psychedelic drug and suffered “bizarre” hallucinations which saw him throw himself into bushes before he died.
He had returned to the UK from a trip travelling in south-east Asia earlier that year, and went to north America shortly afterwards to visit friends made on the previous trip. He had visited friends in Regina, Saskatchewan, before moving east to Winnipeg to meet up with his friend Bryce Duncan, whose evidence the coroner summarised to the inquest. Surrey Coroner Darren Stewart said: “It would appear that on September 2, 2015 Henry and Mr Duncan both got up to go a cabin in the countryside.
“They arrived in the cabin about early afternoon at which point they consumed LSD. It was about 2.30pm to 3pm. There are no details on the amount of LSD they consumed. They had been drinking beer and continued to drink beer at the same time as they consumed the LSD. They subsequently went for a half-hour walk which took them out to a look-out point in a small clearing of the Canadian countryside. It was about that point in time, 35 minutes or so after leaving the cabin, they started to feel the effects of the drug. At that point they were just hanging out, drinking beers, laughing and chatting while looking out at a view over a valley. Subsequent to this Henry then started to go downhill and then laid down on the grass and look up at the sky. He then started to act in a bizarre fashion. Mr Duncan identified mood swings and behaviour in a manner which was bizarre, almost demonstrating a manicness – running around, throwing himself on the ground and throwing himself in trees and bushes.”
Mr Stewart described to the inquest how Mr Suggitt suddenly stopped his exertions and lay still on the ground, much to the concern of his friend – who tried to find mobile phone signal to call an ambulance. “He was in the process of doing so when he heard Henry scream out and became silent,” Coroner Stewart explained. Mr Duncan then returned to where Henry was and found him unconscious. He tried to resuscitate him but was unsuccessful. He then administered Henry’s EpiPen, thinking it was an allergic reaction, but that was to no avail."
Mr Duncan then went off to call paramedics, who arrived sometime later, but were unable to resuscitate him and pronounced him dead at the scene.
A post-mortem examination carried out by pathologist Dr Susan Phillips in Winnipeg on September 3 gave the medical cause of death as LSD toxicity – something which Mr Stewart agreed with. He was found to have 1.3 micrograms of LSD in his system, for every microlitre of blood and 31mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. The coroner said that although there was no indication of the quantity of LSD taken, he acknowledged the post-mortem examination showed Mr Suggitt’s death was due to the drug and recorded a conclusion of drug-related death. His parents have raised more than £20,000 for the Surrey-based Eikon Charity, who go in schools and inform children about the dangers of taking drugs, even in isolated incidents.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3366552/british-gap-year-student-lsd-death-canada-hallucination/
