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The horror that should put everyone off Ecstasy
by ANDREW LOUDON, Daily Mail
The agonising death of a teenage student who took Ecstasy should bring home to youngsters the terrible dangers of just one tablet of the drug, an inquest heard yesterday.
After hearing of the last hours of 19-year-old Lorna Spinks, a coroner said he was bewildered by the way Ecstasy was blithely taken by an estimated one million clubbers each weekend.
Miss Spinks was taken to hospital with her mouth foaming, eyes bulging and a look of sheer terror contorting her face, the inquest heard.
Her blood overheated so much that it ran through her veins 'like hot water' and would not clot when a needle was inserted. Her organs failed, her arms and legs shook uncontrollably.
'It seems this could have happened with any sort of Ecstasy tablet at any time,' said Cambridge coroner David Morris. 'Every time anyone takes Ecstasy they must know the risks.
'In a university town you have a high preponderance of intelligent people who seem to act unintelligibly when it comes to these matters.
'For some reason going to a nightclub for a few drinks, hearing good music and excitement is not always enough.
'I would have thought a group of university friends could have a good evening out without indulging in illegal substances.'
Mr Morris added: 'No one should forget the terrible ordeal Miss Spinks endured. The effects were horrific. It was not a nice way to die.
'A young lady who had a great future ahead of her wasted away on a dramatic night out because of this Ecstasy tablet.
'I do hope that publicity given to the very tragic death of Lorna Spinks may cause people to think a little bit more carefully.'
A photograph of Miss Spinks, taken moments after she died in May, showed her features contorted and her body festooned with drips and tubes. It was released by her parents at the time in a bid to shock people into realising the dangers of the drug.
Miss Spinks, a sociology student at Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge, died 36 hours after collapsing at a nightclub in the city.
The sports-loving teenager was an experienced user of Ecstasy and thought she could handle it.
But, unknown to her and her friends, the tablets - lime green and stamped with the euro symbol - were extra-strength.
They contained 129 milligrams of the active ingredient MDMA, compared with the normal strength of 75 to 100 milligrams.
However, the strength of the dose may have had no bearing on the way Miss Spinks was affected, the inquest heard.
After the hearing, her father Alan Spinks, a scientist based in Geneva, said: 'It is futile to say, "Don't take Ecstasy, don't take drugsî. But you just don't know what you are going to get. It's Russian roulette.
'You simply don't know how it will affect you. It could be a high dose or something completely different. It could be rat poison, there's simply no way of knowing.'
His daughter was among a group of university friends who spent a week planning their night out, the inquest heard. They decided to buy 15 or 16 Ecstasy tablets for £6 each from fellow Anglia student Aaron Strange.
Miss Spinks hid the drugs in her bra to smuggle them into the Junction nightclub, where she swallowed at least one tablet.
Student Dan Edwards, a former boyfriend, said he tried to help her after noticing her skin was 'hot all over'.
He said: 'Her words were not coming out correctly. They were backwards or gibberish. She was losing all sense of balance.'
Another friend, Aoife Logue, said: 'Her face was blazing red and her spaced-out eyes were rolling around.'
Miss Logue added: 'I feel angry and guilty about the incident, as do all of my friends.'
Security staff called an ambulance and Miss Spinks had to be strapped on to a stretcher because she was squirming so violently.
An ambulanceman said she had 'a look of sheer fright'. At Addenbrooke's Hospital, staff found her temperature had rocketed to 43c (109.4f).
A nurse said she had 'never actually seen anyone with a temperature that high before'. The normal body temperature is 37c (98.4f).
The drug had thinned her blood, causing profuse internal and external bleeding. Eventually her lungs and heart failed and she died.
Subsequently, Aaron Strange, 19, from Gwydir Street, Cambridge, was arrested and pleaded guilty to three counts of supplying a class A controlled drug, the inquest heard. He was not charged with supplying drugs to Miss Spinks and is due to be sentenced next month.
Miss Spinks was born in Switzerland and went to the International School in Geneva.
Her parents live in Cessy, on the French-Swiss border.
Her 53-year-old father, originally from Cannock, Staffordshire, is an engineer researching into high-energy particle physics at the CERN Physics Institute.
Her Scots-born mother Liz, 55, has an administration job there.
Mr Spinks, who is considering launching a poster campaign on the dangers of Ecstasy, said he hoped young people would learn lessons from his daughter's death.
He said he and his wife, who did not attend the inquest, had discussed drugs with her from the age of 13.
'Lorna was actually blessed with rather more common sense than many others,' he said.
'She was well aware of the risks of taking Ecstasy and if she could fall victim to this then anyone can.'
Verdict: Misadventure.
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