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Simplepowa
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Legal high dealers 'should be prosecuted' after latest death linked to AMT in Southampton
#18735060 - 08/20/13 11:24 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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AN MP has today led calls for the Government to spearhead a European bid to prosecute businesses that sell deadly “legal highs” that have claimed the lives of three Hampshire men in just a year.
The move comes after a Southampton teenager became the latest victim to die from taking a so-called ‘party drug’ which he ordered on the Internet.
Former St George’s Catholic School pupil Adam Hunt lost his fight for life on Sunday – five days after falling seriously ill after consuming alpha-methyltryptamine (AMT) and etizolam.
His mum found the 18-year-old Saints fan collapsed in his bedroom at their home in Millbrook Road East, with AMT packaging, which the teen bought from Holland, nearby.
He was taken to Southampton General Hospital, where he remained in a critical condition before he died on Sunday morning.
A post-mortem examination is due to be carried out later this week but police have said that traces of both drugs, known as psychoactive substances, were found in his system.
Mr Hunt is the third person to die as a result of taking a legal high in the county in the past 12 months.
Last June trainee doctor Doug Ferguson, 19, became seriously ill at a house in Heathfield Road, Chandler’s Ford, after consuming AMT. The teenager, a former student at Peter Symonds in Winchester and Thornden School, Eastleigh, later died in hospital.
Married dad William Nutter, 32, from Andover, died after taking the same drug just a month later.
AMT remains a legal drug in the UK, although it has been classed as a controlled substance in other countries, including America.
Having been created as a form of anti-depressant in the 1960s, it resurfaced in the 1990s as a recreational drug.
Just last year an East Somerset coroner led calls for AMT to become a banned substance following the death of a 21-year-old man.
Southampton Itchen MP and former Home Office minister John Denham today called for a united legal attempt to prosecute anyone selling such drugs across Europe.
He told the Daily Echo: “I would suggest to the Government that we need a concerted attempt to use every legal move we can to bring these people down if they can be identified as selling these drugs. We need to take the profit out of it and throw the book at people.
“Only part of the answer is regulation and there does need to be more education. The very phrase ‘legal high’ is dangerous because it gives the impression that it must be OK as otherwise it would be banned.”
Hampshire police echoed the warning.
Supt Ben Snuggs said: “This tragic death shows how important it is that people realise the dangers associated with taking ‘legal highs’. They are not necessarily safe and sometimes have been shown to contain potentially lethal substances.”
4:00am Tuesday 20th August 2013 in News By Jenny Makin, Crime Reporter http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10621863.Legal_high_sellers__should_be_prosecuted__after_latest_death/
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dokunai
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Re: Legal high dealers 'should be prosecuted' after latest death linked to AMT in Southampton [Re: Simplepowa]
#18735161 - 08/20/13 11:57 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Mr Hunt is the third person to die as a result of taking a legal high in the county in the past 12 months.
AMT is shit as far as I'm concerned, but... three deaths in a year from all legal highs? Wow. What a menace. 
Here's a statistic for the US:
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"Conservative calculations estimate that approximately 107,000 patients are hospitalized annually for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)-related gastrointestinal (GI) complications and at least 16,500 NSAID-related deaths occur each year among arthritis patients alone." (Singh Gurkirpal, MD, “Recent Considerations in Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Gastropathy”, The American Journal of Medicine, July 27, 1998, p. 31S)
Let's prosecute pharmacists, supermarket owners, convenience store proprietors, and anyone else who sells aspirin.
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Repertoire89
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Re: Legal high dealers 'should be prosecuted' after latest death linked to AMT in Southampton [Re: dokunai]
#18735540 - 08/21/13 02:25 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Simplepowa said: prosecute businesses that sell deadly “legal highs”

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dokunai said:
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Mr Hunt is the third person to die as a result of taking a legal high in the county in the past 12 months.
three deaths in a year from all legal highs? Wow. What a menace. 
Yup, fucking retarded. How do these people make it out of grade school let alone become politicians? They're literally retarded
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Gorlax



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Re: Legal high dealers 'should be prosecuted' after latest death linked to AMT in Southampton [Re: Repertoire89]
#18736249 - 08/21/13 07:26 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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fuck them they didn't use a scale probably.. Darwinism . but I do believe RC's should be strictly an underground online market not in a store front!
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Salomon
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Re: Legal high dealers 'should be prosecuted' after latest death linked to AMT in Southampton [Re: Gorlax]
#18738280 - 08/21/13 03:52 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Gorlax said: fuck them they didn't use a scale probably.. Darwinism . but I do believe RC's should be strictly an underground online market not in a store front!
yup.
if people want to be test rats let them seek out these things, rather than have it right in front of you when you walk in a shop
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meatables
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Re: Legal high dealers 'should be prosecuted' after latest death linked to AMT in Southampton [Re: Salomon]
#18738864 - 08/21/13 05:48 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeah the stuffs garbage anyway...did they test the substances to ensure it was actually and only amt? Got a post-mortem toxicology report? Maybe they was mixin shit.... maybe the manufacturers fucked up a batch.... maybe you shouldnt trust ppl on the internet..... if you're willing to put something in your body that you know can kill you who's fault is it when you die?
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Edited by meatables (08/21/13 05:49 PM)
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