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Simplepowa
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Research Chemical Death Of Southampton Youth Deemed Accidental
#19144772 - 11/16/13 10:29 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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12 November 2013 Last updated at 11:58 ET
Southampton 'legal high' death deemed 'accidental'
Adam Hunt Adam Hunt's mother heard him calling for help from his bedroom, the inquest heard
A man died after taking a so-called "legal-high" which he bought over the internet, an inquest has heard.
Adam Hunt, 18, died on 18 August after taking the substance alpha-methyltryptamin (AMT), marked "not for human consumption", at his home in Southampton, Hampshire.
He had also purchased another drug, etizolam, but this was not found in his system, the Southampton inquest heard.
Coroner Keith Wiseman recorded a verdict of accidental death.
"Anyone taking this kind of drug in any kind of quantity is potentially walking into the unknown, into disaster really," Mr Wiseman said. 'Experimentation gone wrong'
The inquest heard Mr Hunt told a friend on 14 August he had bought 2g of AMT, which was supposed to have the same effects as MDMA (ecstasy), and intended to take it later that day.
Det Sgt Jeremy Boughay, of Hampshire Police, said Mr Hunt's mother, Bernadette Fagan, returned home later and heard her son calling for help from his bedroom.
He was described as "sweating and shaking" before being taken to Southampton General Hospital where he died four days later.
Pathologist Dr Brian Green told the inquest a post-mortem examination found Mr Hunt, an electrical engineering student, died of multiple organ failure caused by taking a dose of almost 1g of AMT.
"It was sadly an experimentation gone wrong," he said. Hallucinogenic properties
Mr Boughay said Mr Hunt's computer was seized and it was found that he had researched AMT and other legal highs on the internet.
Packets containing the drugs were also found which were marked "not for human consumption", the inquest heard.
Mr Boughay said the drugs AMT and etizolam were not prohibited under the law but this did not mean they were safe to use.
He explained that it was difficult to legislate against such products as a slight change in their composition would mean they would be classed as a different product, and would therefore no longer be banned.
Speaking after the inquest, he said: "The point we are trying to make is that there is no process to ensure what is written on the packet is what is in there because they are unregulated."
The inquest heard AMT, which has similar effects to amphetamines, was developed to tackle depression but was no longer used because of its hallucinogenic properties.
Mr Hunt's mother and father Darren previously paid tribute to "a much-loved son" whose life had been "cut prematurely very short."
BBC news
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-24915409
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Re: Research Chemical Death Of Southampton Youth Deemed Accidental [Re: Simplepowa]
#19144960 - 11/16/13 11:37 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wonder why he took so much? Says he took almost a gram, that is like 20X a strong dose of AMT
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Re: Research Chemical Death Of Southampton Youth Deemed Accidental [Re: weilii-coyote]
#19146009 - 11/16/13 04:25 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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They say he researched it on his cpu. he should have done some more research. He apparently was comparing it to MDMA, but you do not even take that much MDMA. This kid was very uneducated about what he was doing
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Re: Research Chemical Death Of Southampton Youth Deemed Accidental [Re: LiquidGlass]
#19146048 - 11/16/13 04:35 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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he probably eyeballed it.
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Re: Research Chemical Death Of Southampton Youth Deemed Accidental [Re: D.M.T]
#19146502 - 11/16/13 06:43 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Here's how I'm guessing it went down. The night started with 1-2mg of etizolam and once he got used to that effect he felt a false sobriety and popped more maybe to a near black put state. Soon after he was sloppy and drool happy and felt he needed something to wake him up. He portioned out what he thought was a good amount of AMT, but on a second look the pile looked a little big. He looked at it for a second and thought fuck it because he had the uninhibited benzo invincibility feeling. He popped it..and we know the rest.
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Re: Research Chemical Death Of Southampton Youth Deemed Accidental [Re: utk]
#19146521 - 11/16/13 06:50 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
utk said: Here's how I'm guessing it went down. The night started with 1-2mg of etizolam and once he got used to that effect he felt a false sobriety and popped more maybe to a near black put state. Soon after he was sloppy and drool happy and felt he needed something to wake him up. He portioned out what he thought was a good amount of AMT, but on a second look the pile looked a little big. He looked at it for a second and thought fuck it because he had the uninhibited benzo invincibility feeling. He popped it..and we know the rest.
etizolam wasn't found in his system.....
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Re: Research Chemical Death Of Southampton Youth Deemed Accidental [Re: jboredone]
#19146779 - 11/16/13 08:20 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yet another impatient kid dead due to a lack of respect to chemicals unknown to him. Given how available information is, why does this happen? If he truly did research, any research at all, aside from where to buy it..
And if he had the money for those, why not also pick up a milligram scale? Or even dissolved the known weight of the AMT into a known volume of solvent, and using simple division and fractioning to approach the desired dose range? I did this when I didn't have a MG scale. Anything is better than eyeballing.
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