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Hi Guys,
Even though this is a Herald article it seems well reported and not as propaganderish as normal so I posted it. The other reason I posted it is because the people mentioned are related to close friends of mine and also my cousins attended this funeral in Auckland as they were close friends with the Brenner family there. I am also related ot the Brenner's mentioned here in my family tree, although they are not blood relatives of mine and I have not met them. It hit a little close to home this time, not too close, but pretty close.
They are from the same country, with the same religious background and sit somewhere in my family tree so it was pretty scary when I got this forwarded from my dad this morning. I don't know how I should feel at the moment, but it sure makes me want to take it very easy, especially considering how my dad reacted as though I was the one that was dead.
It highlights the dangers of 1,4-B I suppose even though we all know them but it seems as though some people don't and hence the NZ government is now going to schedule the substance.
Fantasy damage rising: doctors
01.05.2001 By SCOTT INGLIS
Thirty-six people wound up in hospital this year after taking designer drug
Fantasy and a related drug - seven more than for the whole of last year.
Of the 36, seven were critically ill and now one has died.
The 29 last year was up on 1999's total of 21.
Doctors warn that the number of admissions will continue skyrocketing and more
people will die unless attitudes to the "lethal" drug change.
Auckland Hospital released the figures to the Herald after student Shawn Jacob
Brenner, aged 22, died after taking Fantasy on Friday night.
Mr Brenner's death is believed to be the first from the party drug in New Zealand
and Australia and comes as the Government considers making it and related drugs
illegal under the Misuse of Drugs Act and the Health Ministry steps up its education
programme on them.
Paramedics were called to Mr Brenner's Ponsonby home and found his heart had
stopped. While they were trying to restart it, other people in the house alerted
them to his girlfriend, who had nearly stopped breathing after also taking Fantasy.
Mr Brenner, an Auckland University engineering student and son of prominent
gynaecologist Dr Bernie Brenner, died in hospital on Saturday and was buried
in Glen Eden yesterday.
Police are investigating.
A family friend, Dr Allan Pelkowitz, described Mr Brenner as a "lovely young
guy, very friendly."
"These drugs are quite insidious. I'm quite sure that he would have believed
what he was doing was safe."
The hospital figures were for people who had overdosed on Fantasy - which is
illegal without a prescription under the Medicines Act - and its counterpart
One4B, a dietary supplement containing 1,4 butanediol.
One4B converts into Fantasy - also known as GBH or Liquid Ecstasy - when processed
by the body.
The Health Ministry ordered that One4B be withdrawn from sale after four people
were admitted to hospital this year after taking it.
The substance 1,4 butanediol is also found in a compact disc and tape cleaning
solution called Puretech and is still marketed by a Timaru importer.
Auckland Hospital intensive care specialist Dr Tony Smith said Fantasy and similar
drugs "stand out compared with the number of people we see from other joy-inducing
substances."
Fantasy is popular among middle to upper-class working people aged from their
late teens to early 30s, who party at nightclubs and raves.
It costs at least $35 a dose - up to a third of the cost of its party drug cousin,
Ecstasy - and causes effects including euphoria, drowsiness, increased confidence
and dizziness.
It can also cause seizures and respiratory collapse.
"We're talking ordinary people," said Dr Smith.
"These are not scumbags, they're not low-lifes, they're not regular drug users."
He said more deaths were inevitable because there was no safe dose. People taking
Fantasy were experimenting with their lives.
A colleague, specialist emergency physician Dr Tony Holley, agreed.
"I feel we should be making a bigger effort to reach the people and tell them
this stuff is not safe.
"The average punter out there is getting misinformed."
Health Minister Annette King has said the Government plans to make Fantasy and
related drugs illegal under the Misuse of Drugs Act.
That process has two more months to go, including an experts panel and a select
committee.
Detective Senior Sergeant Colin McMurtrie, head of the Auckland drug squad,
said his team had not focused on Fantasy so far because it was not illegal under
the Misuse of Drugs Act - but would if there was a law change.
Fantasy's cheap price was working against polic, he said.
"It's cheaper than Ecstasy ... it's half the price. Do the sums; it's got to
make it attractive."
Herald Online Health
Even though this is a Herald article it seems well reported and not as propaganderish as normal so I posted it. The other reason I posted it is because the people mentioned are related to close friends of mine and also my cousins attended this funeral in Auckland as they were close friends with the Brenner family there. I am also related ot the Brenner's mentioned here in my family tree, although they are not blood relatives of mine and I have not met them. It hit a little close to home this time, not too close, but pretty close.
They are from the same country, with the same religious background and sit somewhere in my family tree so it was pretty scary when I got this forwarded from my dad this morning. I don't know how I should feel at the moment, but it sure makes me want to take it very easy, especially considering how my dad reacted as though I was the one that was dead.
It highlights the dangers of 1,4-B I suppose even though we all know them but it seems as though some people don't and hence the NZ government is now going to schedule the substance.
Fantasy damage rising: doctors
01.05.2001 By SCOTT INGLIS
Thirty-six people wound up in hospital this year after taking designer drug
Fantasy and a related drug - seven more than for the whole of last year.
Of the 36, seven were critically ill and now one has died.
The 29 last year was up on 1999's total of 21.
Doctors warn that the number of admissions will continue skyrocketing and more
people will die unless attitudes to the "lethal" drug change.
Auckland Hospital released the figures to the Herald after student Shawn Jacob
Brenner, aged 22, died after taking Fantasy on Friday night.
Mr Brenner's death is believed to be the first from the party drug in New Zealand
and Australia and comes as the Government considers making it and related drugs
illegal under the Misuse of Drugs Act and the Health Ministry steps up its education
programme on them.
Paramedics were called to Mr Brenner's Ponsonby home and found his heart had
stopped. While they were trying to restart it, other people in the house alerted
them to his girlfriend, who had nearly stopped breathing after also taking Fantasy.
Mr Brenner, an Auckland University engineering student and son of prominent
gynaecologist Dr Bernie Brenner, died in hospital on Saturday and was buried
in Glen Eden yesterday.
Police are investigating.
A family friend, Dr Allan Pelkowitz, described Mr Brenner as a "lovely young
guy, very friendly."
"These drugs are quite insidious. I'm quite sure that he would have believed
what he was doing was safe."
The hospital figures were for people who had overdosed on Fantasy - which is
illegal without a prescription under the Medicines Act - and its counterpart
One4B, a dietary supplement containing 1,4 butanediol.
One4B converts into Fantasy - also known as GBH or Liquid Ecstasy - when processed
by the body.
The Health Ministry ordered that One4B be withdrawn from sale after four people
were admitted to hospital this year after taking it.
The substance 1,4 butanediol is also found in a compact disc and tape cleaning
solution called Puretech and is still marketed by a Timaru importer.
Auckland Hospital intensive care specialist Dr Tony Smith said Fantasy and similar
drugs "stand out compared with the number of people we see from other joy-inducing
substances."
Fantasy is popular among middle to upper-class working people aged from their
late teens to early 30s, who party at nightclubs and raves.
It costs at least $35 a dose - up to a third of the cost of its party drug cousin,
Ecstasy - and causes effects including euphoria, drowsiness, increased confidence
and dizziness.
It can also cause seizures and respiratory collapse.
"We're talking ordinary people," said Dr Smith.
"These are not scumbags, they're not low-lifes, they're not regular drug users."
He said more deaths were inevitable because there was no safe dose. People taking
Fantasy were experimenting with their lives.
A colleague, specialist emergency physician Dr Tony Holley, agreed.
"I feel we should be making a bigger effort to reach the people and tell them
this stuff is not safe.
"The average punter out there is getting misinformed."
Health Minister Annette King has said the Government plans to make Fantasy and
related drugs illegal under the Misuse of Drugs Act.
That process has two more months to go, including an experts panel and a select
committee.
Detective Senior Sergeant Colin McMurtrie, head of the Auckland drug squad,
said his team had not focused on Fantasy so far because it was not illegal under
the Misuse of Drugs Act - but would if there was a law change.
Fantasy's cheap price was working against polic, he said.
"It's cheaper than Ecstasy ... it's half the price. Do the sums; it's got to
make it attractive."
Herald Online Health
