I Mean Why????

[Soxxy]

Such a good start in her young life,not only her but another 3 ,one another student in her Halls another two in Washington , Tyne and Wear all on the same day, what makes these young people dabble with dangerous drugs ?
What a waste of young lives , the poor families that are left to ask that same question, WHY?

https://news.sky.com/story/tributes-paid-to-outstanding-newcastle-university-student-after-suspected-drug-deaths-12091306

[Sunk]

CrapAtCryptics
Legal drugs such as tobacco and alcohol kill a lot more people than ecstasy. But plenty of people demonstrate a degree of stupidity bordering on recklessness, to do them.

[jourdain2]

Because they don't think it applies to them. When teaching, these issues arose. They would sit there and listen/watch films etc. and I'm certain that some had switched off. There was a girl, think her name was Hannah Betts (I may be wrong, it was a long time ago) who died after taking 'E'. Her parents funded a very clear, graphic, moving video which pulled no punches and would make you cry. Having shown it and got the usual 'yeah' responses from some quarters, the only way I really got through was to cite a kid who had died not 5 miles away and to tell them straight that the only reason I had bothered to get hold of the video for them was that I rather liked them and wanted them to be alive in 10 years time.....I then asked them how many would be alive then and there was a silence as they left. I hope it did some good, but it takes something like that to bring a personal relevance. Shock them by applying it to them is the only way, but you can't always be there.

One moment of stupidity and there is so much devastation and waste.

[Bobbisox1]

I remember Hannah's tragic story jourdain

[JimF]

Leah Betts.

[Boto]

I think her name was Leah Betts. I thought about her when I read this article.

[Boto]

Snap!

[Bobbisox1]

Thank you Jim, Leah Betts

[Peter Pedant]

poor kids
the fact that three died means that the drug was to blame and not the kids
and I suspect the Heroin was too strong - not cut enough
so the same piece had much more than usual

RIP

[Peter Pedant]

yeah Leah Betts had a funny reaction related to Leah and not the drug

did she also manage to walk around with fixed dilated pupils ( normally associated with really dead people) for ten or fifteen minutes before she died? - no indication that intervention then wd have saved her

[jourdain2]

Yes, Leah Betts. Thanks all. The only way I could get through was still to hit them personally. Where do you want to be in 10 years? etc. etc.. It also shocked them when I said that I was a druggie............ then I listed tea, coffee and alcohol. In other words, you can send all the messages you want - but they won't get through unless you direct them directly and shock or otherwise engage them.

[Peter Pedant]

horses for courses
what is the french for that Jourdain

my year at uni looked at the very druggy years above us and we didnt use drugs as they were already dead!
shock therapy not needed - we used our eyes

[andres]

And to think that the only message in the mid-sixties was-----''Just say NO''. Fat lot of good that message gave out. Should have been a much stronger penalty for drug taking back then.

[eve1974]

Sadly its the naivety of youth - thinking "it'll never happen to me"...

[douglas9401]

"Should have been a much stronger penalty for drug taking back then."

or

Should have been a controlled supply set up, regulated and taxed like other drugs.
The war on drugs would have been won overnight.

[Bobbisox1]

I was a 60s teen and I can honestly say I've never been offered anything from then to now

[jourdain2]

P.P. 'Chacun a son gout'?

[jourdain2]

Bobbi - I was also a Sixties teen. I was once offered a 'spliff' and refused and that was that. Really, it was very much tamer than you would believe if you read about the 60's, but that all angled London-wise. We did copy the fashions etc..

[Bobbisox1]

Yes and the 'goings on ' in San Francisco # The Summer of Love# and Flowers and LSD, :0)))