In memory of the teens that have died linked to ECSTASY use
Leah Betts
Leah Betts
Leah Betts
The teenager, who died in 1995 after taking a single tablet at her 18th birthday party and drinking seven litres of water in 90 minutes, unwittingly became the anti-drugs poster girl for a generation, after her family allowed a powerful Polaroid of her on a life-support machine to be released to the press. It immediately went viral before such a phenomenon existed. The Betts family could never have imagined the frenzy of press attention and later, death threats from furious drug dealers, which would follow that decision. But they also couldn’t have imagined the impact sharing that photo would have on thousands of young people up and down the UK.
Sky Nicol
Leah Betts
Leah Betts
Sky Nicol found unconscious before dying at Royal Blackburn Hospital
Sky’s father David, 38, said: ‘You don’t expect to be burying your daughter. This has come as a huge shock to me and the rest of the family.
Daniel Spargo-Mabbs
Daniel Spargo-Mabbs
Daniel Spargo-Mabbs
A teenage schoolboy told his mother, “I love you mum, I promise I won’t die,” before attending a rave where he apparently took a fatal Ecstasy overdose.
Georgina Bartter
Daniel Spargo-Mabbs
Daniel Spargo-Mabbs
Georgina Bartter has been remembered as an 'old soul who loved her family' and a 'perfectly imperfect' role model to her younger siblings at a funeral service in north Sydney for the 19-year-old who died last weekend of a suspected drug overdose