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Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital
#14407382 - 05/05/11 08:46 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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http://www.herald.ie/national-news/city-news/children-at-play-find-ecstasy-tablets-2638275.html
A YOUNG girl was rushed to hospital after taking an ecstasy tablet she found while playing with pals.
The five-year-old took the pill after finding the drugs in a green area near her Dublin home.
A group of children playing on the Dublin 13 housing estate found around 50 pills in a cigarette box yesterday.
One five-year-old girl swallowed a tablet and developed palpitations, shakes and a very high temperature -- she is currently being treated at Temple Street Hospital.
Another five children from the Killary Grove estate in Donaghmede are believed to have licked or touched the drugs and were admitted to hospital for observation.
One parent told the Herald it had been confirmed that the yellow tablets, stamped with a harp design, were ecstasy.
"Panic hit everyone and an ambulance was called. The youngest girl started reacting about 20 to 30 minutes after she took it. She has drips and everything on her now."
"Apparently one of the children found the cigarette packet and it was full of tablets, and being the young children that they are, they were all looking at them and licking them.
"It's been confirmed that it's ecstasy."
Another parent said: "One child had swallowed it, so I went to alert the other parents and it was then that I stumbled across 50 ecstasy tablets in a driveway."
A garda spokesperson said yesterday that the incident is being investigated by Coolock Garda Station, and the tablets are being analysed.
Consultants at Temple Street Hospital kept most of the children in for observation until 8.30pm last night -- five hours after they were believed to have found the drugs.
The child who took the tablet is now believed to be out of danger but is still being observed closely.
A source close to the family said: "They put her on an ECG machine because her heart rate was pumping like mad. But now she's going to be all right.
"She was in no danger last night but whether there's going to be any side effects or anything I don't know.
"Four of them were given doses of charcoal to prevent anything seeping through their stomach and into the bloodstream, and the others were being kept in hospital and their blood pressure was being monitored every 15 minutes.
"We're lucky we're not looking at six dead children. Had they sat in a corner and had a little party for themselves, things could have been a lot different."
One parent recalled: "The kids knocked on the door and they showed me a yellow tablet, and I saw an Irish harp on it, and then alarm bells started ringing and I realised that three of the kids had licked the tablets.
"The consultant was concerned and he wanted to observe them for at least six hours."
Another parent said: "Usually they go outside and we didn't think anything would happen. Hopefully someone can stop this."
Councillor Tom Brabazon has called for parents and school authorities to be vigilant about drugs.
"It's shocking that children of that age can be exposed to drugs," he said.
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: 5-HT2A] 1
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limestoneman
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: TTT]
#14407434 - 05/05/11 08:59 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I have a feeling someone is wondering where he left his rolls.
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: limestoneman]
#14407455 - 05/05/11 09:04 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Lucky kids. Though before I experienced the awesomeness that is a seesaw on ecstasy, I would've sold some to the big kids and financed a new tricycle.
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: limestoneman] 1
#14407481 - 05/05/11 09:08 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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limestoneman said: I have a feeling someone is wondering where he left his rolls.
i dont know if its a bad thing for that to be the first thing that crossed your mind but i was thinking the same thing. haha
Guy who lost box of pills *checking pocket* "Where the fu...." *Looks off into distance as crowd of children start popping pills"
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: InvaderShroom]
#14407575 - 05/05/11 09:27 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: Scarab74]
#14407662 - 05/05/11 09:47 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Why can't I find cool shit when i go out? =(
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: King Cap]
#14407941 - 05/05/11 10:53 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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King Cap said: Why can't I find cool shit when i go out? =(
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: 5-HT2A]
#14408334 - 05/06/11 01:08 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'm curious what was in the pills ?....If it actually was MDMA or something dirty like a piperzine or some other RC.
Though of course they won't report on what the pills were composed of...
*Edit: Just did a quick search and almost everyone is saying they're not MDMA, most likely an pipe or some other random RC. That's horrible.

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Edited by openmind (05/06/11 01:14 AM)
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: openmind]
#14408686 - 05/06/11 05:42 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Why couldn't I ever have stumbled across a bag of 50 rolls... LOL
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: Dave Bowman]
#14408873 - 05/06/11 07:04 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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"It's shocking that children of that age can be exposed to drugs," he said.
And I wonder how many children have become sick or died from tylenol or prescription drugs they accidentally get into at home? He uses the term drugs like the only drugs that exists are the illegal ones.
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: digitalemu]
#14408900 - 05/06/11 07:16 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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OH DEAR GOD!!! "The consultant was concerned and he wanted to observe them for at least six hours." Observe them! Oh those parents must have been terrified to know that the consultant was soooooo afraid of the effects that they actually sat and.. yes thats right....WATCHED THEM!!!!  Dear god! Observation! JESUS CHRIST!! THAT SOUND SERIOUS! I hope their OK! Observation is a serious thing! Being that they didn't say anything else really, the kids are fine. Had one of the kids even SNEEZED they would have reported the sneeze as if it was a near death sneeze and the kid almost died, .
"It's shocking that children of that age can be exposed to drugs," he said.  Thats the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time. It's shocking that people could say such retarded things.
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: guest1]
#14408916 - 05/06/11 07:21 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Medical "observation" is a different thing than just sitting around waiting.
Sometimes anyway.
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: Doc_T] 1
#14408927 - 05/06/11 07:28 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yay! I just found about fifty rolls in my desk's drawer. What a "coincidence"!  I'm not losing them in a park, though. I leave that to the wiggers that fail at dealing drugs in public places.
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: openmind]
#14408979 - 05/06/11 07:59 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
openmind said: I'm curious what was in the pills ?....If it actually was MDMA or something dirty like a piperzine or some other RC.
Though of course they won't report on what the pills were composed of...
*Edit: Just did a quick search and almost everyone is saying they're not MDMA, most likely an pipe or some other random RC. That's horrible.

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That was my first thought too - if it was straight MDMA, that's one thing, but pipe pills
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: dwpineal]
#14409016 - 05/06/11 08:13 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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LOL, on a sidenote, my mom told me she saw 10 joints in bag lying around in a park she was walking the dog at. When is this gonna happen to ME lol.
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: openmind]
#14410390 - 05/06/11 01:49 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
openmind said: I'm curious what was in the pills ?....If it actually was MDMA or something dirty like a piperzine or some other RC.
Though of course they won't report on what the pills were composed of...
*Edit: Just did a quick search and almost everyone is saying they're not MDMA, most likely an pipe or some other random RC. That's horrible.

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I'd have to agree...would eating just ONE MDMA pill have that dramatic of an effect even on a child?
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: neur0net]
#14410772 - 05/06/11 03:05 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Frequently, children have different reactions to drugs than adults do. I have no idea about this particular case, and I imagine there's not much research on kids and MDMA. But it's completely possible that even legit stuff (which this wasn't) could be a lot harsher or more dangerous to a kid.
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: Doc_T]
#14410876 - 05/06/11 03:24 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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too much to ask for a follow up interview of the child?
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Re: Children at play find ecstasy tablets; rushed to hospital [Re: lovecheese]
#14410946 - 05/06/11 03:38 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I can take 100 mg of benadryl and wake up tomorrow my two year old can not. Same applies to MDMA, Tylenol, or vitamin C
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