Electric Zoo's Last Day Cancelled Due To Apparent MDMA-Related Deaths

Correct me If I'm wrong but almost all of these were in the north east weren't they?
 
soooo, ppl who like music that you dont....deserve to die? capital W. capital O. capital W. thats fucking messed the fuck up dude. i agree that the setlist wasnt my cup of tea either, but everyone deserves to take real drugs at a safe dose and rage face to whatever they like, even country. well, maybe not country lmao
 
25I_am_so_wonderfu said:
If those people/clones actually like those "artists"/clones on the EZF roster, they probably deserve to die. Just sayin'

Remember people, it's all about the PLUR: Peace, Love, Unity and Ripping people off
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What the actual fuck? You insensitive, and quite frankly disgusting bastard. Joking or not, that was just not fucking cool.
 
Changes in set and setting can manifest physical changes in how our bodies process chemicals. A disproportional number of drug overdoses occur in unfamiliar environments because of this. A dose that was tolerable in one environment can prove fatal in another due solely to the lack of conditioned tolerance. It appears this phenomenon has been most thoroughly documented in regards to heroin though the principle of conditioned tolerance applies to drugs in general.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1196296/

"When rats are given a large dose of morphine following morphine dosing in an environment substantially differing from the one in which they experienced the effects related to morphine, signs of overdose rapidly appear and in a few cases lead to the death of the rat. In contrast, in the case of rats where the morphine is dosed in the same circumstances the same size dose has a substantially smaller effect since the substance was given in the accustomed environment and so they were "expecting" its effect."

Physical stress is also a major factor. A person who lives a sedentary life style and rarely breaks a sweat is going to be testing their body dancing for four hours in the heat on stimulants. This has been a recurring issue. Last year at some of the E.D.C. venues air conditioning, and subsequently temperature, was a problem. Does anyone know how hot it was?

It is always disappointing to hear of something like this. It might have been an uninformed pattern of use or misrepresented drugs that are to blame. Having been to this type of event my bet is on bad habits rather than bad drugs.

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In the case that some of you are unaware, changes in set in setting can manifest physical changes in how our bodies process chemicals. A disproportional number of drug overdoses occur in unfamiliar environments because of this. A dose that was tolerable in one environment can prove fatal in another due solely to the lack of conditioned tolerance.
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I noticed when I smoke a joint in an unfamiliar environment I get higher than when I am at home. I always put it up to fear of being busted getting you nervous and making your heart beat, but then I had in Amsterdam too. One more reason drugs are safer at home.


afterlyfestyle said:
You're right though 98% of cases the media won't re-report to say "oh no here is what the substance really was"... but when has the media ever been worried about being correct XD

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You can't depend on the media to follow up with an article on the post mortem. They sell papers, that is their job. Drug OD deaths sell papers and follow up stories do not. The media considers that they warned us dangerous drugs were out there and their job is done. Though I don't agree with their attitude, I am not buying their paper either.
I have called the Coroner's office and told them I was writing an article and just asked them when I couldn't find further information about a death. They will help you because they are sick of seeing dead kids, they even faxed me reports. Every one of these death stories should be followed up by us to find out the truth because no one else is going to do it.
 
my3rdeye said:
I have called the Coroner's office and told them I was writing an article and just asked them when I couldn't find further information about a death. They will help you because they are sick of seeing dead kids, they even faxed me reports. Every one of these death stories should be followed up by us to find out the truth because no one else is going to do it.
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I like that idea, and I can see a lot of HR value in it.
 
Sad stuff....shows how the illicit drug market takes more lives...i remember when a fake pill was either caffeine and meth or just dxm (i guess bc it would turn the marquis reagent blackk iirc) now there is so much weird shit on the rc market and mainstream media thinks methylone is molly...one of the worst parts is once the results of the autopsy comes out there will be no article or follow up. Just the initial article making ppl think mdma kills ppl no prob.
 
Yeah nice one 3rdeye, I can't say I've ever heard of someone going out of their way like that!! Send me a pm web you find out anything!
 
Woman and man die at Electric Zoo festival from MDMA overdoses.

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On Friday and Saturday, two people died and four were hospitalized due to Ecstasy-related illnesses at the Electric Zoo electronic music festival on Randall's Island. The deaths of Olivia Rotondo, 20, a University of New Hampshire junior from North Providence, RI, and Jeffery Russ, 23, a Syracuse University graduate from Rochester, ultimately prompting officials to cancel the third day of the event. Both died of an overdose from MDMA, more specifically molly, a more concentrated form of the drug. The Post reports that on Saturday Rotondo told an EMS worker, “I just took six hits of Molly,’’ before collapsing in a seizure and dying.

Hours before her death, Rotondo tweeted her excitement about attending the fifth annual Electric Zoo: “The amount of traveling I’ve done today is unreal. Just get me to the damn zoo." “She was the nicest girl I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing,” Noah Burkholz, a friend who had traveled to the festival with her, told the Times. Her grandfather Henry Rotondo, 73, told the Post, “She was a great kid — that’s all I can tell you.”

Police do not believe that Rotondo and Russ knew each other. Russ, who died early Saturday morning, graduated from Syracuse University last year with a degree in information technology. “Now there will be no grandchildren, no nieces, no nephews, no wedding,” Russ’ father, John Russ, told the Daily News. “Everything you look forward to in life is gone because of one pill.”

Police say that the four concertgoers who also became critically ill due to drug use are expected to recover. In addition to all that, a 16-year-old girl was sexually assaulted and 31 people were arrested for offenses including drug sales, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and possession of controlled substances. Many criticized the lax security and the lack of medical staff; one concertgoer told us that it took several hours to get Russ from the festival to the hospital. “You saw a lot of people puking and collapsing down and laying on the ground,” 19-year-old Christopher Stuebbe told the Times.

While some lashed out at Bloomberg and organizers for canceling events on Sunday, others defended the culture of the event. "I don't think EDM culture promotes drug use at all.
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Full article at link: http://gothamist.com/2013/09/02/woman_who_died_at_electric_zoo_repo.php
 
^So it was MDMA after all?

An MDMA positive alone doesn't rule out other causes. The Canadian deaths last year were because people were taking an MDMA + PM(M)A mixture.

Whatever the case, there are several threads on this forum about people dying after taking laboratory-confirmed MDMA. Here's one article about 12 of them:

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/...-of-MDMA-(ecstasy)-toxicity-from-a-rave-party

And I'd like to say that vBulletin's built-in search engine is ass!
 
Damn well taking 6 hits of anything could of killed her. Sounds like she was being wreckless as hell. RIP and all that stuff but I don't feel terribly sorry for her
 
facedbeyond82 said:
soooo, ppl who like music that you dont....deserve to die? capital W. capital O. capital W. thats fucking messed the fuck up dude. i agree that the setlist wasnt my cup of tea either, but everyone deserves to take real drugs at a safe dose and rage face to whatever they like, even country. well, maybe not country lmao
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Maybe I was a bit misguided with that statement. Perhaps I should just wish overdose and death on those who MAKE and peddle such shitty music.
 
This made me very sad. I went to the first day of Electric Zoo, and I had a blast.

I wanted to meet up with old friends who also enjoy trance/electronica. I brought my own crystal MDMA, tested positive and everything. I wound up buying my friend a ticket just so he would go with me, since he doesn't have a lot of money, and he's just not that into EDM.

I could only make it Friday, because I had other plans during the weekend. All my old friends were going to be at Zoo on Day 2 and 3, Saturday and Sunday. On Thursday, I get a call from someone, who tells me that some of his friends from all the way up in Vermont were coming down to see Electric Zoo and they were looking for some cool people to chill with.

They were some of the best company I could've asked for. Even though we never met, it was like we just instantly got into sharing the good times at the festival. I brought MDMA for all, and of course didn't charge anyone a penny for it. I had such a beautiful day.

This really made me sad when I read it the next day.
 
Please don't jump to conclusions simply based off of a sensational line from the NY Post - "I just took 6 hits of molly." May that poor girl rest in peace. It's not a new thing that someone died having fun, it makes me very sad to see such judgement based off so little fact
 
Today show report
Dr. Meika Roberson of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York said that it’s very difficult for concert-goers who use Molly to sense whether or not they are on the brink of an overdose.

“The early signs of intoxication going over toward overdose of MDMA, of Molly, is going to be high heart rate, high respiratory rate and high blood pressure,” she said. “So if you're in a club scene, you're not feeling any of that.”
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Educate yourself kids, educate yourself! Have fun but party with people you know and trust. I'm curious if these people who "overdosed" were using this for the first time.
 
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