I heard this news on the radio last night.

Really fucks me off...

First: A couple of stupid fucking kids get high, die, and ruin it for the rest of us through their ineptitude (though I am sorry they died ).

Second: No one seems to be focussing their attention on the fact they had access to methadone (see part in bold/quotes halfway down-ish). I know mephadrome is a bit of an unknown but errrm yeah think methadone might have more to do with it! (not that I know much about methadone).




(haha - read a bit further down to the other bit in bold about the guy from Durham!!!)


http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2895648/Grieving-dads-drug-warning.html

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HEARTBROKEN dad Tony Smith last night begged youngsters to stay away from meow meow, saying: "I don't want this drug to kill any more kids."
Grieving Tony spoke out after son Nick, 19, and his pal Louis Wainwright, 18, died after taking the "legal high" drug on a night out.

Police urged anyone else who may have taken the drug - real name mephedrone - to go to hospital immediately.

A man and a woman were discharged from hospital after check-ups, while three others were being examined by medics last night.

Nick, a talented chef, and welder Louis went out clubbing with pals in Scunthorpe, Lincs, on Sunday night and into the early hours of Monday.

Police were called to Louis's home in the nearby village of Winteringham on Monday lunchtime after he collapsed and died.

Caring

Four hours later they were called to a flat in Scunthorpe after friends found Nick dead.

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Officers believe both lads had taken meow meow, known locally as M-CAT, and also had access to heroin substitute methadone which they used to bring them down from the high of mephedrone.

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Nick's dad wept as he urged youngsters to avoid the drug.

Retired firefighter Tony, 54, said: "We don't know much about what happened but we think he's been taking this drug on a night out.


Dangers ... mephedrone
"I don't want him to be labelled a druggie because he wasn't. He was just on a night out with friends enjoying himself, a normal, caring, hard-working lad.

"I just don't want any other family to go through this or any other kids to die because of this. He was 19 for God's sake."

Nick - who lived in Winteringham with his dad and mum Elaine, 50, a nurse - had a twin sister Holly and student brother Matt, 21.

Family friend Tony Granger said: "Nick always went out on Sunday nights because he had Mondays off. He had such a promising career in front of him."

Louis, thought to have a girlfriend, lived with his family just yards from the upmarket Winteringham Fields restaurant where Nick worked.

Three people were arrested yesterday as police launched an investigation into the lads' deaths.

Two men aged 20 and 26 and a youth of 17 were last night in custody waiting to be questioned.

Officers who searched a property found packages marked "herbal highs" and empty mephedrone packets. Police chiefs urged anyone in possession of mephedrone to destroy it or hand it in.

Det Chief Insp Mark Oliver said: "We need to get the message across that this drug is dangerous and you may die if you take it."

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Last September Luke Cowan, 17, from Newport, Isle of Wight, died after taking pills containing mephedrone at a music festival. A woman of 49 died after taking the drug in Dunfermline, Scotland, in January, while an 18-year-old in Durham tore off his own scrotum as he hallucinated for 18 hours.

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Labour MP Helen Goodman wants a ban after five youngsters in her Co Durham constituency suffered serious reactions to the drug.

She said: "As long as it remains legal young people are more likely to use it and police are less able to tackle the problem." The Government is still deciding whether to ban mephedrone, which is used legitimately in plant fertiliser. The substance has already been outlawed in several countries including Sweden, Norway and Israel.

The Home Office says it is waiting for a report from the Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs.

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gilesypopper said:

Same old story - a drug comes around that it's pretty easy to get hold of then a couple of epic n00bs go and get ultra fucked up on it, die, cause national outcry (from the ignorant masses) and then get it banned. A bit like JWH (of recent times).

my $0.02 anyway.

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Police urged anyone else who may have taken the drug - real name mephedrone - to go to hospital immediately

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[/mephedrone on the other hand is the new designer drug that is supposed to be a mix of "coke and ecstacy" aparentlyquote]

its actually a cathione based amphetamine I think related to the Khat plant, not a mix of x and coke, but the hit is definately like a mix between x and coke