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Father slams 'soft drugs culture that has spread across the globe' after his 16-year-old son dies after taking ecstasy

By Luke Salkeld

Last updated at 5:23 PM on 2nd February 2012

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Father slams 'soft drugs culture that has spread across the globe' after his bright 16-year-old son dies after taking ecstasy. A father has attacked Britain’s ‘soft’ attitude to drugs after his 16-year-old son died from taking ecstasy sold to him at a nightclub. Public school deputy head Tom Simons said his A-level student son, Joe, was the victim of a ‘complacent’ approach to drug use, which he said was ‘spreading like a cancer’.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...drugs-culture-son-16-dies-taking-ecstasy.html


And from the Guardian...
Deputy head criticises UK drugs culture after son's death from ecstasy
Steven Morris and agencies
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 2 February 2012 19.56 GMT

School teacher Tom Simons says his son's death is 'indictment of our failure as a society to tackle the scourge of drugs'

In a statement read out during the inquest, his father, Tom, deputy head of Prior Park College in Bath, said: "Joe is in many ways an indictment of our failure as a society to tackle the scourge of drugs. There are no easy answers of course and we are daily beset by the views and advice of the well meaning and the misguided — urging us to legalise drugs or build more jails. Experts in the field are legion, as sadly are the lives touched by the drugs culture that seems to have spread like a cancer across the globe.

"It is complacency that is the greatest challenge to us all. We never think it will happen to us or our loved ones. We trust that it will not be our child who will be tempted. After all, we teach our children the dangers of taking drugs and that is enough. Well, sadly not, as poor Joe, souls like Joe and countless others will attest to."

The inquest verdict was recorded as "death through non-dependant use of drugs" - specifically MDMA (ecstasy) toxicity.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2...-drug-culture-son-death-ecstasy?newsfeed=true
 
WHY THE FUCK IS MDMA A PART OF THIS ARTICLE

When was the last MDMA only death? People are fucking dying because you shit heads made drugs illegal, and now the other shit heads are putting mCPP, TFMPP, PMA, BENOCYCLIDINE and completely unidentified compounds in ecstasy
 
Folley said:
WHY THE FUCK IS MDMA A PART OF THIS ARTICLE

When was the last MDMA only death? People are fucking dying because you shit heads made drugs illegal, and now the other shit heads are putting mCPP, TFMPP, PMA, BENOCYCLIDINE and completely unidentified compounds in ecstasy
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Did you bother reading the article? It seems this one may be a legit MDMA death. He had a lot of MDMA in his system and he was in a night club (poor ventilation/heating). It is entirely possible he died from MDMA only. His death could've probably been prevented with proper drug education.
 
The inquest verdict was recorded as "death through non-dependant use of drugs" - specifically MDMA (ecstasy) toxicity.
 
lynx2051 said:
They never show my comments. :|
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Doesn't look like they are showing anyone's comments. The Sun is showing comments, though...

Death lad dad says drugs are a cancer
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4105676/Death-lad-dad-says-drugs-are-a-cancer.html

The Express has comments, but no comments shown yet.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/299765/Dad-slams-drug-culture-as-ecstasy-kills-son-16

And This is Bath
http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/Nightcl...choolboy-Joe/story-15112090-detail/story.html

Edit: Looks like the DM has posted some comments. Not mine though :(
 
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Just read the first article too, sounds like he took 1.5gs of a powdered drug, and just "collapsed" several hours later after they "noticed he turned gray"

Toxicology results revealed that Joe had 0.98 micrograms of the drug in his blood. Pathologist Dr Edward Sheffield said a normal recreational level for the drug would be about 0.2 micrograms.
Mr Simons told the inquest his son’s death had been a ‘tsunami’ on their family – as Joe’s mother Brenda had died from lung cancer three years ago.
Terence Moore, assistant deputy coroner for Avon, gave Joe’s cause of death as toxicity due to ecstasy.
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Whats the drug? The drug is ecstasy...


IDK seems fishy
 
Sounds more like you be parenting wrong if your kid is 16 in a nightclub taking ecstasy TBH.
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This.

I waited till i was 19 at least :P


They should employ me as an information on harm reduction officer,
I'd love to go from school to school and actually explain how these drugs work,
how there are inactive and active cuts,
Kill 2 birds with one stone then, get me out of unemployment and i can perhaps save lives?

rather than someone going into a school (likely a police officer) and drawing holes in a brain and saying this is what ecstasy does.
 
Folley said:
Toxicology results revealed that Joe had 0.98 micrograms of the drug in his blood. Pathologist Dr Edward Sheffield said a normal recreational level for the drug would be about 0.2 micrograms.
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Obviously it's micrograms per mililiter of blood. Levels are consistent with other MDMA fatalities (see book). There apparently is such a thing as an unsafe dose, at which potentially fatal cardiac events happen, like atherosclerosis and cardiac hypertrophy.

Anyone who can explain to me how acute MDMA causes sudden hardening of the arteries gets a cookie.
 
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