Aus - Teenager Nick Mitchell's LSD overdose - death, delusions and despair

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Aus - Teenager Nick Mitchell's LSD overdose - death, delusions and despair

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LIKE a carefree teenager, Nick Mitchell spent Saturday morning skateboarding and hanging out with his younger brother. Life was good for the Central Coast boy.

Ten hours later the academically gifted teen was dead after a nightmare chain of events sparked by taking an illegal and dangerous drug.

Nick, 15, died after he and a mate experimented with a substance police believe to be LSD.

The drug caused respiratory problems and heart complications for Nick, who could not be revived after his 11-year-old brother found him unconscious in his bedroom.

It had a different effect on his friend, also 15, who, in a psychotic state, ran naked into traffic on a busy road and was hit by a car, leaving him with serious injuries. He is in hospital.

Nick's parents Matthew and Sharon were yesterday struggling with the shock of their son's tragic death and how the popular teen came to be in possession of such a deadly substance.

The two mates had been hanging out together in Nick's granny flat-style bedroom, at the rear of the family's waterfront home in Tascott.

It was during the heatwave on Saturday, and neighbours said they saw the pair wander between the flat and a backyard pool, looking happy and giving no hint of the tragedy which was about to unfold.

About 8.30pm Mrs Mitchell received a frantic call at work from her youngest son to say Nick was not breathing. He'd found his brother slumped on the floor of the bedroom, which police later discovered had been "smashed up".

A neighbour raced over to help and performed CPR on the dying boy, while he waited for paramedics.

In a cruel twist, paramedics racing to the Mitchells' home came across an accident just around the corner where Nick's friend had been hit by a car.

A second ambulance got to Nick and rushed him to Gosford Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Head of the NSW Police drug squad Detective Superintendent Nick Bingham said the teenager's death was an absolute tragedy and should pose as a stark warning about the dangers of any drugs.

"LSD, if that's what it was, is an insidious drug. It's got a smiley face on it and looks harmless, but it kills," Supt Bingham said.

Paul Dillon from Drug and Alcohol Research and Training Australia warned that LSD, the once fashionable drug of the 1960s, was having a resurgence in popularity because it is cheap, its effects last much longer than ecstasy and it is not detectable by sniffer dogs: "Some people think LSD went out with the hippie era and isn't around any more, which couldn't be further from the truth."

Nick's death follows that of Brazilian student Roberto Laudisio Curti, who took LSD on the night he was tasered and died during a police chase through Sydney in March.

Detectives fear there could be a toxic batch of the drug circulating, after numerous other incidents were reported where people had suffered serious side effects. Police are awaiting toxicology results, but said evidence found in the boy's bedroom suggested it was likely LSD had been consumed.

Friends of Nick said he was a "smart and popular" boy who had formed a skateboarding club in the Gosford area where teenagers could hang out and share their love of the sport.

On Facebook they lamented a life cut so tragically short.

"Can't believe someone so smart, young and talented could be taken away," Nathan James wrote.

At Gosford High, where Nick was a Year 9 student, counselling was offered to his classmates who were struggling to deal with the senseless death. A private funeral service for Nick will be held next week.

http://www.news.com.au/national/tee...ions-and-despair/story-fndo4bst-1226530792737
 
probably wasn't LSD

Also, do you guys usually experience hyperthermia on LSD? (Hyperthermia being the usual reason for intoxicated public nudity). The 25 or so times that I've done acid I haven't experienced that.
 
I agree it probably wasnt lsd. I'll try and post any updates I come across.

no, i've been using it for over 20 yrs now and never seen hyperthermia or public nudity from LSD, and me and friends have had loads of very strong LSD since the early 90's. Different people have different reactions to drugs, but i've never seen that, and i've been around ALOT of trippers, and done a fair bit myself.

Supt Bingham is a dick as Folley said, if he wants to spew out that kind of shit then how about telling us what the real description of the drugs are (what logo and colour and size etc) so we can pass the info around and make sure none of our friends or loved ones touch it and try it and possibly have bad reactions.

RIP to the guy.
 
25 bucks on NBOMe derivatives alex!

I'm noticing a pattern of LSD deaths being attributed to either the law or reckless behaviour. Never have I heard of someone taking street-size doses (even 10 tabs) and dying of organ failure.
 
Darkness of losing a child to drug evil

EVERY time I hear of another teenager losing their life to drugs, it breaks my heart.

Our deepest sympathy goes to Nick Mitchell's family, we know their pain all too well.

The drug laws in this country, and in NSW, are a complete joke.

They are desperately bad and need to be changed - or we will keep losing young lives to these despicable substances.

We need compliance and enforcement. Police need to arrest kids possessing drugs, as well as those using them.

But the sad reality is that we just don't have the police manpower to do this.

It's truly heartbreaking that, despite the warnings out there about drugs, young people still experiment with them.

I don't know what it will take for them to heed the warnings, and I honestly don't know what we do to stop it.

We need a government that's committed to stamping out drugs, but the problem is that they're not interested in targeting drugs because drug users don't vote.

In the meantime, I think the best way young people will learn the dangers of drugs is by hearing from people who have lost a child, a brother or sister, through drug use.

My wife Angie spent many years going around schools and talking to kids about our experience of losing Anna.

I couldn't do it. I couldn't talk for the first three years, because I couldn't stop crying.

You can write as many books as you want, or hand out thousands of pamphlets, but if you have the courage as a parent who has been through the tragedy to talk about what it's like to lose your child to drugs, people will listen.

TONY WOOD IS THE FATHER OF TEENAGER ANNA WOOD WHO DIED AFTER TAKING ECSTASY 17 YEARS AGO

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...ild-to-drug-evil/story-e6freuy9-1226530790430
 
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This is why drug decriminalisation is still a long way away. Because everytime someone allegedly dies from illegal drugs, it becomes a moral panic. Can you imagine what would happen if the Daily Telegraph had a front page for every teenager who died from alcohol?
 
Murdoch-News Journos Lie about LSD
December 6, 2012 by Nick Wallis

… and are you really surprised?

The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) journalists Clementine Cuneo and Richard Noone put together an article, released on the 6th of December 2012, entitled, “Teenager Nick Mitchell’s LSD overdose – death, delusions and despair”.
Although the story focuses on the substance LSD as a source of “Death, delusions and despair” it does note that, “Police are awaiting toxicology results, but said evidence found in the boy’s bedroom suggested it was likely LSD had been consumed.”
The story follows a piece of rhetoric that came up recently in an article in Fairfax’s Sydney Morning Herald, “Many young people have started using hallucinogens because they are becoming more accessible and are relatively cheap, with LSD costing about $20 a tab, says (Paul) Dillon, the director of Drug and Alcohol Research and Training Australia.”
The cornerstone of this rhetoric is that the apparently out-of-fashion substance LSD is making a dangerous return. However, the Victorian Department of Health’s Patterns of Drug Use & related harm in Victoria reports over the past 15 years have shown no significant rise in the use of what the government refers to as ‘hallucinogens’, the category which includes LSD. Usage sits around the 1% of respondents mark. Director of Drug and Alcohol Research and Training Australia Paul Dillon is often quoted in these articles and seems to be suggesting that there has been a rise in the use of LSD. However, over at NineMSN the story is reported without all the irresponsible speculation. “Mr Dillon said until the results of the toxicology are released, he will not speculate the cause of the teenager’s death. “Until we receive all the information, the best possible message we can get across is to provide the right information to the public”"

The Death, Delusions, Despair version of the story has been syndicated across various other News Limited (Rupert Murdoch owned) papers, including South Australia’s Adelaide Now and Melbourne’s Herald Sun.

Read the story in full: http://www.news.com.au/national/tee...ions-and-despair/story-fndo4bst-1226530792737

I believe that such stories should not be allowed to go published without comment and complaint. Journalists needs to be held to the highest of standards, and we should expect responsible reporting from them, even when their industry is in a down-turn, papers are downsizing and profits are leaking from everywhere. These are not excuses for lazy, irresponsible and blatantly shit-house journalism. Here’s my complaint/comment:

I would like to make a complaint about the article entitled, “Teenager Nick Mitchell’s LSD overdose – death, delusions and despair”

Journalists Clementine Cuneo and Richard Noone have barely checked facts and jumped to conclusions that are inconsistent with known effects of the drug LSD. The headline itself claims that the teenager overdosed on LSD, but early on in the story it is noted that police believed he had taken LSD. Using phrases like, “such a deadly substance” when LSD is known to be a safer substance than Australia’s popular legal drugs alcohol and nicotine is irresponsible reporting. The story focuses on LSD being the deadly factor in this boy’s death, although the toxicology report is not yet in.

I will be interested to see what the toxicology report says, and speculate the substance was more likely the research chemical 25I-NBOMe, which some nefarious types sometimes sell as LSD.

It seems a hark back to ancient times to use the death of this boy to proliferate an obsolete and ill-thought-through ‘anti-drugs’ agenda.

I would like to see the article corrected and the irresponsible and scientifically unfounded speculation about what killed Nick Mitchell removed.

You should head across and send them a comment too.
Be careful if you decide to use a psychedelic substance like LSD. There is the potential for things to go wrong if your set and setting are not receptive to the experience. Know your body, know your mind and know your substance. Head to Erowid.org for more information on LSD.
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http://enpsychedelia.org/enpsychedelia/blog/murdoch-news-journos-lie-about-lsd/
 
I feel even worse for the kid's friend. Can you imagine your friend dying while you're tripping, and then you get hit by a car and then find out that accident delayed the paramedics? You'd be fucked for life.

Portillo said:
This is why drug decriminalisation is still a long way away. Because everytime someone allegedly dies from illegal drugs, it becomes a moral panic. Can you imagine what would happen if the Daily Telegraph had a front page for every teenager who died from alcohol?
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Exactly what I thought, straight away.

And out of all the millions of people who take acid, how many have died from its direct effects? I think it's around one, and he shot up on something like 15,000 times the active dose. So unless this guy was the first to die from a not-utterly-insane dose, it wasn't LSD.

How many die from it indirectly every year? Something in the realm of one or two, I think (no citation) out of the millions of users will go crazy and jump off a balcony. How many die from alcohol poisoning, drink driving, etc.? And yet I'm the weird one because I refuse to drink. Damnit I hate the media.

Was planning on a trip this weekend, where there are some high cliffs... might take this as a warning sign and dose light.
 
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And out of all the millions of people who take acid, how many have died from its direct effects? I think it's around one, and he shot up on something like 15,000 times the active dose. So unless this guy was the first to die from a not-utterly-insane dose, it wasn't LSD.
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Thats what I thought when I read the paper today. This kid is the first person in human history to die from LSD.
 
A drug and alcohol expert has said it is unlikely that the death of a Central Coast teenager was caused by an LSD overdose.

Nick Mitchell, 15 suffered heart and respiratory problems after taking the drug with a friend, also 15, on Saturday.
But National Drug and Alcohol Research and Training Centre director Paul Dillon said it is more likely that the teen died from an incident relating to taking the hallucinogen.
Mr Dillon said there has been no documentation of a human death from an LSD overdose.
"It is unlikely that the teen died from an LSD overdose as the drug does not cause respiratory failure but it does alter the perception of the user," he said.
"The symptoms of taking the drug cause the person to go into a psychosis and hallucinate which may result in them walking in front of a car or getting into some type of an accident."

December 06, 2012 :A NSW teenager who died recently after taking what is believed to be LSD is seen skateboarding with friends in a video filmed last year.
Mr Dillon said until the results of the toxicology are released, he will not speculate the cause of the teenager's death.
"Until we receive all the information, the best possible message we can get across is to provide the right information to the public," he said.
"There is an increase in usage of the drug especially among young people and the message is to warn them about the effects."
According to the police, Nick was found unconscious on his bedroom floor by his 11-year-old brother at their home in Tascott on Saturday.
The drug caused his friend to become psychotic and run naked into traffic.
He is in hospital with serious injuries after being hit by a car.

Nick Mitchell appears in video filmed November 2011.
The two teenagers had been spending the day hanging out in Nick's granny flat-style bedroom and neighbours reported seeing them playing in the backyard pool showing no signs of anything abnormal.
Around 8.30pm AEDT Nick's younger brother made a frantic call to his mother saying he had found the teen slumped on the floor not breathing.
Police said officers later found the bedroom had been "smashed up".
A neighbour performed CPR on Nick as paramedics rushed over.
But the ambulance was stopped just around the corner from the Mitchell's house when it came across Nick's friend who had been struck by a car.
Another ambulance was sent out for Nick but he was pronounced dead on arrival at Gosford Hospital.
Detectives said the incident came after numerous other reports of people suffering serious side effects from LSD and there were fears a toxic batch of the drug could be circulating.
"LSD, if that's what it was, is an insidious drug. It's got a smiley face on it and looks harmless, but it kills," Detective Superintendent Nick Bingham told The Daily Telegraph.
Brazilian student Roberto Laudisio Curti died in Sydney's CBD in March after he took LSD, fell into a psychotic state and was tasered by police after a struggle.
Sources: The Daily Telegraph, Paul Dillon
Author: Bernadette Chua and Alys Francis. Approving editor: Nick Pearson

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2012/12/06/15/08/expert-says-teen-death-not-from-lsd-overdose
 
Anna wood = the drug mdma didnt kill her, too much water and not fast enough medical help did.

Brazilian guy on lsd = the drug didnt kill him, the cops did.

This guy = until tox reports come in, seems very unlikely lsd was the cause of death.
 
Portillo i put that article you posted over in the ausdd thread of this too, thanks.
 
poledriver said:
Aus - Teenager Nick Mitchell's LSD overdose - death, delusions and despair

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LIKE a carefree teenager, Nick Mitchell spent Saturday morning skateboarding and hanging out with his younger brother. Life was good for the Central Coast boy.

Ten hours later the academically gifted teen was dead after a nightmare chain of events sparked by taking an illegal and dangerous drug.

Nick, 15, died after he and a mate experimented with a substance police believe to be LSD.

The drug caused respiratory problems and heart complications for Nick, who could not be revived after his 11-year-old brother found him unconscious in his bedroom.

It had a different effect on his friend, also 15, who, in a psychotic state, ran naked into traffic on a busy road and was hit by a car, leaving him with serious injuries. He is in hospital.

Nick's parents Matthew and Sharon were yesterday struggling with the shock of their son's tragic death and how the popular teen came to be in possession of such a deadly substance.

The two mates had been hanging out together in Nick's granny flat-style bedroom, at the rear of the family's waterfront home in Tascott.

It was during the heatwave on Saturday, and neighbours said they saw the pair wander between the flat and a backyard pool, looking happy and giving no hint of the tragedy which was about to unfold.

About 8.30pm Mrs Mitchell received a frantic call at work from her youngest son to say Nick was not breathing. He'd found his brother slumped on the floor of the bedroom, which police later discovered had been "smashed up".

A neighbour raced over to help and performed CPR on the dying boy, while he waited for paramedics.

In a cruel twist, paramedics racing to the Mitchells' home came across an accident just around the corner where Nick's friend had been hit by a car.

A second ambulance got to Nick and rushed him to Gosford Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Head of the NSW Police drug squad Detective Superintendent Nick Bingham said the teenager's death was an absolute tragedy and should pose as a stark warning about the dangers of any drugs.

"LSD, if that's what it was, is an insidious drug. It's got a smiley face on it and looks harmless, but it kills," Supt Bingham said.

Paul Dillon from Drug and Alcohol Research and Training Australia warned that LSD, the once fashionable drug of the 1960s, was having a resurgence in popularity because it is cheap, its effects last much longer than ecstasy and it is not detectable by sniffer dogs: "Some people think LSD went out with the hippie era and isn't around any more, which couldn't be further from the truth."

Nick's death follows that of Brazilian student Roberto Laudisio Curti, who took LSD on the night he was tasered and died during a police chase through Sydney in March.

Detectives fear there could be a toxic batch of the drug circulating, after numerous other incidents were reported where people had suffered serious side effects. Police are awaiting toxicology results, but said evidence found in the boy's bedroom suggested it was likely LSD had been consumed.

Friends of Nick said he was a "smart and popular" boy who had formed a skateboarding club in the Gosford area where teenagers could hang out and share their love of the sport.

On Facebook they lamented a life cut so tragically short.

"Can't believe someone so smart, young and talented could be taken away," Nathan James wrote.

At Gosford High, where Nick was a Year 9 student, counselling was offered to his classmates who were struggling to deal with the senseless death. A private funeral service for Nick will be held next week.

http://www.news.com.au/national/tee...ions-and-despair/story-fndo4bst-1226530792737
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There have been cases of people on bad trips that killed themselves while on a very bad trip. Maybe that's what happened with the kid. Who knows? Maybe he had an isolated reaction that caused him to overdose
 
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