Aus - Lethal heroin injection: friend admits killing mate after bucks' party

It happened because of ignorance, and bad luck. A lot of people narrowly escape death every year because of ignorant use of drugs or combos.

The guy could have easily lied and said that his friend injected himself and died, but since he's a good person he told the truth. Now he's fucked. It's a shame that even though the dead guy's loved ones don't want his friend charged, the state is going ahead with it anyway. Typical.

Yeah the guy didn't call for help, but stories like this still teach people that you shouldn't get the authorities involved because look at what happened. In a society where it's looked down upon it always makes people question what they should do when shit goes down. Maybe if things were different there wouldn't be one more dead body. The two guys involved made the choice to do this, so that's their fault, but I still blame the state for keeping the public ignorant and afraid which makes dangerous situations like this happen.

szuko said:
How did they randomly decide to use heroin, find rigs, and hit all without ever having done that before.
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Australia has needle exchanges that hand out everything you need.
 
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Perhaps the injection room at Kings X should be 24/7. Like a 24 hour injecting convenience store chain. One on every corner?
 
Australia has needle exchanges that hand out everything you need.
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Yep, although I don't think it's 'australia', I think the only one is in Sydney Kings Cross, not far from where these guys were.


How did they randomly decide to use heroin, find rigs, and hit all without ever having done that before.
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Even if it's closed, there are late night pharmacies and addicts all over the place there, it wouldn't be that hard to get it all, and they possibly knew someone who scored the drugs for them and got the other stuff as well, who knows, I doubt it would be very hard to get around that area. One or both of them might have hung around people who IV before and maybe they had even IV'ed meth or coke before.
 
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Here's a longer article on it from back in Aug '12 -

The evening started, as bucks' nights often do, with a few drinks at the hotel.

The prosecution's statement of facts notes that some cocaine was consumed.

The group of men, mostly aged in their early 30s, continued to the Cargo Bar at King Street Wharf, where they met fellow guests and drank more before going on a harbour cruise.

While the 20 guests were watching the sun set over the harbour on that warm summer night, Mr Gray flew in from Perth, where he works as an off-shore oil rigger, arriving in Sydney about 6.20pm.

He dropped his belongings at the Citigate Hotel before meeting up with his friends.

Mr Gray's solicitor, Hugo Aston, describes his client as a decent, hard-working man.

What followed next is typical of many celebrations which take place before a man makes a commitment to the woman he loves.

The group went on a pub crawl of some of Sydney's popular night spots including the Clock Hotel on Crown Street, Surry Hills and the Trinity Bar, a short distance south.

They moved on to the Strand Hotel on William Street, east Sydney, where the drinking continued into the early hours of Sunday morning.

One guest reported seeing Mr Wood handing out ecstasy tablets about 2.30am, according to the statement of facts
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More -

http://www.smh.com.au/national/drug-binge-tragedy-a-trial-for-the-grieving-widow-20120804-23ma0.html
 
About Sydney's supervised injecting centre (from 2 years ago now) -

The supervised injecting facility in Sydney operates under the auspices of UnitingCareNSW.ACT and is now one of 91 such facilities around the world.

Given it began operating exactly a decade ago, it is timely to reflect on 10 years' worth of achievements. There have been 3936 drug overdoses successfully treated onsite without a single fatality.

The centre supervises an average of 180 visits a day, and makes contact with about 10 new people each week. There have been just over 9000 referrals accepted by clients, half of which were into services that specialise in the treatment of addiction.

There has been an 80 per cent reduction in the number of ambulances called to drug overdoses in Kings Cross and a halving in the number of publicly discarded syringes.
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A picture of inside it and user comments -

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...nate-response-to-drug-use-20110526-1f5y8.html
 
Sad story...i dont think the guy wwho injected him should be jailed. He has to live with the fact he accidently killed one of his friends for the rest of his life. They were both partying m.aking poor descisions. It could have been either one that ODd.
 
Mate's despair after caving in to friend's heroin urge on bucks' night

A man who caved in to his best friend's request to take heroin with him during a drunken bucks' party only to watch him die from an overdose says he believes the man would still be alive "if I'd been a better friend".

Daniel Gray broke down in court as he recalled the January 2009 bucks' party in central Sydney that ended with the death of his lifelong friend, Greg Wood.

The 39-year-old has pleaded guilty to manslaughter over the incident, after prosecutors ignored the wishes of Mr Wood's wife and elected to press charges.

He is being sentenced in the Downing Centre District Court.

Mr Gray recalled how, after a night of drinking and cocaine use, Mr Wood had begun trying to convince him to try heroin with him.

"He'd always gone on about taking heroin, about how he wanted to try it," Mr Gray, a crane operator from Western Australia, said.

Initially, Mr Gray refused, but eventually gave in to his friend's "whining".

"We took a taxi to Kings Cross and just approached a few people on the street to see if we could obtain ...

"If I'd just held out he'd still be alive," he said.

Mr Gray told the court of injecting Mr Wood with heroin and his friend struggling to inject him.

"He was putting the needle in, taking it out, putting it in, taking it out."

Holding back tears, he then described how he thought Mr Wood had fallen asleep until his lips began to turn blue.

"I tried to wake him, just shaking him," Mr Gray said.

"When that didn't work I thought 'there's something wrong.'"

When a cold shower failed to revive his friend, Mr Gray began CPR.

"I was in a state of shock - nothing was working, he wasn't responding."

Mr Gray said that he called an ambulance but from the time officers arrived his memory was a blur.

"All I know is that my friend was lying on the ground, blue, and realising that I was to blame.

"I was devastated, just devastated. I couldn't believe that that had happened. Even when the ambulance officers said he'd gone I just didn't believe it."

"I felt sorry for my friend, I felt sorry for his family. You've spent years with someone, done all sorts of things and you think it'll be alright. And then it's not."

"I feel responsible. If I'd been better, you know, a better friend, he'd be alive. If I'd said 'let's just leave it', if I hadn't given in to his whining, he'd be alive."

"It's awful. His daughter no longer has a father. His wife no longer has a husband."

Mr Gray's barrister is seeking for him to be released without conviction. The Crown opposes this.

The hearing continues.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/mates-des...bucks-night-20130510-2jcgj.html#ixzz2SrPPPhK1
 
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