Apex student dies after taking LSD; another teen charged

http://www.wncn.com/story/23383841/apex-teen-died-after-taking-n-bomb-not-lsd


Apex teen died after taking 'N-bomb,' not LSD
Posted: Sep 09, 2013 4:29 PM MDT Updated: Sep 09, 2013 4:29 PM MDT

by WNCN Staff





Timothy Castaneda was found unresponsive in a wooded area behind Beaver Creek Cinemas in the Beaver Creek Shopping Center on Oct. 6, 2012.Timothy Castaneda was found unresponsive in a wooded area behind Beaver Creek Cinemas in the Beaver Creek Shopping Center on Oct. 6, 2012.
RALEIGH, N.C. -
An Apex teen who died in 2012 after taking what friends said were two hits of LSD had the designer drug "N-bomb" in his system.

A report by the state medical examiner lists "complications of 25I-NBOMe toxicity" as the cause of death of Timothy Castaneda.

25I-NBOMe is a psychedelic drug more commonly known as "N-bomb," "Smiles" and "25I." Like LSD, N-bomb may be distributed in liquid form on blotter paper.

Apex Police found the 17-year-old former Apex High School student unresponsive in a wooded area behind Beaver Creek Cinemas in the Beaver Creek Shopping Center on Oct. 6, 2012. He died a week later.

A friend of Castaneda called 911 shortly after his friend collapsed after taking the drug. The caller said Castaneda was "on LSD."

When they arrived, EMS responders described the teen as "pale and cyanotic, hot to the touch, with pupils dilated to the point where no iris was showing." He was also unresponsive and having a seizure.

Castaneda was transported to Rex Hospital and then transferred to WakeMed, where he died seven days later. Doctors said he "never regained meaningful neurologic function" while hospitalized.

The report called Castaneda's death an "accident."

Police arrested and charged Ryan Laches, who was 17 at the time of Castaneda's death, with two counts of selling a controlled substance to Castaneda.

Police said Laches gave Castaneda a drug at a party that day. A search warrant said Laches was trying to "drum up business" by handing out free hits of a drug.

Laches is scheduled to make his next court appearance on these charges on Oct. 9.
 
I don't understand how it's legal for the police or the media to continually assert that death was caused by LSD when there is no toxicology report being presented as factual evidence.
 
Is anyone keeping track of all the nbome deaths anymore? So two blotters can kill you. Shit just got real. That's the 2nd report I have seen of someone eating two blotters and dying the other was that chick in West Virginia. I knew the snorting nbomes was bad idea but dying from two blotters is insane.
 
and the drug war claims another victim. I doubt his parents realize that if their son had taken legal, pure lsd he would still be alive. Oh well.
 
Foreigner said:
I don't understand how it's legal for the police or the media to continually assert that death was caused by LSD when there is no toxicology report being presented as factual evidence.
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I heard that it was illegal in Canada to print or broadcast false news. Do you know if this is true?

It was rumored that this prevented Fox News from airing in Canada.

I could get behind such a law. US news networks will do things like pixelate a middle finger, but they'll play fast and loose with the truth. What if, instead of fining them for obscenity, we could fine them for mendacity?
 
Foreigner said:
I don't understand how it's legal for the police or the media to continually assert that death was caused by LSD when there is no toxicology report being presented as factual evidence.
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For the same reason it's legal to say "Molly" killed a kid when a capsule contains no MDMA. "LSD" could be anything, just another ambiguous name for an unidentified street drug. Now, if they had said lysergic acid diethylamide, it would have been quite specific. Either way, tragic event as usual that continues to emphasize the need for an HR community.
 
Ego Death said:
and the drug war claims another victim. I doubt his parents realize that if their son had taken legal, pure lsd he would still be alive. Oh well.
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exactly the media is contributing to these deaths but not educating anybody and feeding people lies.....if kids new that NBOME existed maybe it would cause some to be more cautious or not take them. but instead the media is too stupid to do research and people will continue to be in the dark
 
Psychonautic said:
Buy blotter people. There are like only five possbile additives small enough to be active on it. LSD is non toxic on blotter almost always.... If you are eating sugar cubes from unreliable sources its your own damn fault.

I call bullshit on a minuscule amount of blotter killing someone.
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The problem is that the 25X NBOMe drugs seems to cause death at high doses.

There's an easy way to protect yourself as a user: put the tab into a gel cap and swallow it. NBOMe drugs aren't orally active, LSD is.
 
it wasn't lsd. it was an RC. i know the kid who dieds older brother. his name is daryl. i know all the kids who were in the woods with him that day taking that shit. it sickens me that he died. he took twice as much as everyone else and started to seize and just died. i've always felt so bad for his brother. he's a quiet kid.
 
Zeppelin4519 said:
it wasn't lsd. it was an RC. i know the kid who dieds older brother. his name is daryl. i know all the kids who were in the woods with him that day taking that shit. it sickens me that he died. he took twice as much as everyone else and started to seize and just died. i've always felt so bad for his brother. he's a quiet kid.
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My sincere condolences to the family.

I may have missed it in the articles, but any idea if the deceased had also consumed alcoholic beverages? I find it's more of a so-called "gateway drug" than anything else because it lowers inhibitions, which results in people doing (possibly dangerous) things that they wouldn't do while sober.
 
ro4eva said:
My sincere condolences to the family.

I may have missed it in the articles, but any idea if the deceased had also consumed alcoholic beverages? I find it's more of a so-called "gateway drug" than anything else because it lowers inhibitions, which results in people doing (possibly dangerous) things that they wouldn't do while sober.
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I think they smoked weed beforehand but they all seemed down for it. Oh, and they bought it from a kid that advertised it as LSD. The kid new it was a dangerous RC and admitted as such to the police. He received a suspended sentence and rehab. The whole thing was really sad.
 
This sounds to me like one of the 'N-Bombs'. The similar onset, small dose size and tab usage make it a terribly fit candidate. It's unfortunate that such a wonderful chemical is gaining such infamy. I've always regarded LSD to be an entheogenic leader, but the effects of the 'N-Bombs', are quite intruiging, at least to me. Quite a shame.
 
the kid who dealt it is home schooled now i think. kids at the school wanted his fucking head. he was a tool from what i heard and now he's a murdering tool.
 
Wat a prick, makes me sick to think the guy didnt give a shit what he was selling as long as he made money.. rip to him
 
Bare_head said:
Wat a prick, makes me sick to think the guy didnt give a shit what he was selling as long as he made money.. rip to him
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There's a very good chance he thought it was LSD. Shit tends to roll downhill and by the time it goes through 2-3 people's hands it's hardto know what you got.
 
crimsonjunk said:
There's a very good chance he thought it was LSD. Shit tends to roll downhill and by the time it goes through 2-3 people's hands it's hardto know what you got.
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IMHO that doesn't justify it. A dealer I think is responsible for everything he sells, like a store-owner is too. If he wants to deal drugs, fine, but then test your shit so you know for sure that your customers are getting what they pay for. They have to be able to determine what the consequences could be if they ingest a substance, and to be able to do that you need to be able to rely on what your dealer says that substance is. Even if they are buying arsenic so to speak, as long as they can rely on the dealer claiming it's arsenic whatever they do with it afterwards is their responsibility. If after that they still get themselves in trouble, that's their responsibility and fault. The dealer did his part.

But I don't think he should be excused because he didn't know he was selling something very toxic. Like I won't excuse my butcher if I catch a disease because he sold me bad steaks. He's my butcher, it's his job to make sure I get good steaks, I pay for this service =D perhaps not the best analogy but you get my point

Either that or you accept the consequences when you harm someone by selling them something toxic, even if you didn't know
 
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