Canada - Brett Belchetz says 'nobody knows' contents of party drugs

[S.J.B.]

Brett Belchetz says 'nobody knows' contents of party drugs
CBC
November 3rd, 2014

A Toronto emergency room doctor is warning the public about the dangers posed by so-called party drugs, following a weekend in which three young people nearly died from ingesting them.

Dr. Brett Belchetz said that at the start of his shift on Saturday, he was told that a rave was taking place in the community and that he should expect to see patients admitted during the night.

"Unfortunately, those predictions proved to be true," he said in an interview on Monday.

Belchetz told CBC News that six such patients were admitted after taking party drugs and three nearly died.

"Three of those teenagers had ingested so much of varying different kinds of drugs that they were actually unconscious to the point that they weren't breathing effectively anymore," he said.

Watch the full report here.

I think he is mostly wrong about the polydrug consumption he sees in the people ending up at his hospital being unintentional, but his conclusion (that we need pill testing at large music events) is spot-on.

 

[Crankinit]

Sounds more like people overdoing it with K and GHB. But he's right about needing testing sites at gigs.