Brent Shapiro

How many more DEATHS do we need, BEFORE ANYONE WILL UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU TAKE ECSTASY, YOU CAN DIE!

NOTE: The type that is blue is me, Beth

Brent Shapiro died after taking just half of an ecstasy tablet!! The word overdose doesn't even seem to fit with many of these deaths. We need to call it what it is, "It's ecstasy poisoning"

Here are some parts from the Larry King show.

For 18 months Brent Shapiro was sober. He was doing incredibly well at USC. He had decided he was going to go to law school, even though he was in a specialized music school there in a specialized program for music industry, which he loved and wanted to get into.

And so, you know, if you asked me this two or three years before, I'd say every night I'd expect a call. You never know when that call is coming. But for 18 months to see the smile on this kid's face. He never was happier. He had everything he wanted in life. He was a giant sports fan and USC was undefeated. He just had everything going for him.

KING: How good a brother was he, Grant?

G. SHAPIRO: The best brother anybody could ask for. He just had such a big heart and he would, you know, place his friends and family before himself in the snap of a second.

What a horrible nightmare! My heart goes out to the whole family and to everyone who has to lose someone to drugs! It's especially tragic when it's talked about so much as being safe!

I'm now going to add to this, and I hope all of you are as pissed off as I am. I am going to be searching the internet and telling all of you what the dangerous idiots out there are telling our kids. I'm done with being polite to those who endanger our kids and plain don't give a you know what. I will not even allow any comments on this site that entertain or imply that Ecstasy, Ketamine, GHB, DXM or Binge Drinking is O.K. to do! If you do it and you survived Good for you! BUT NOT everyone does, and I will not have anymore stupid debates on this subject going on, on MY site! If you want to talk about these drugs and how you think they are O.K. Start your own weblog and say what ever the hell you want!

I stopped posting on my own site for a while because I couldn’t take the stupid debating, it was draining me, and bringing me down and away from what I do best. This weblog is just a supplement to what I really do. I make true stories about what happened to kids and their families when their child either chose to take on their own OR were slipped these drugs! Please fgo to my web site to see more on the kids and the previews and so much more.

Here are one person’s thoughts on ecstasy. See what you think. I’ll of course put in my opinion to!


Here it is:

Let me stop here for just a second before I continue this article for a Harm Reduction Public Service Announcement.
Note: Harm reduction is now being admitted as a real mistake in Australia. (Beth)
The same one that my youngest daughter at 19 years old hears from me, her father. IF YOU DECIDE TO TAKE ECSTASY DO NOT DRINK ALCOHOL! Period!
Sounds like great father of the year advise to me?

Had Cathy Isford heard that from the DEA as a truthful message passed from them on to her by her parents (instead of politically driven propaganda which bears little relation to the reality of the street or the medical facts) she likely could have been alive today.

Cathy barely even had any alcohol at all; the truth here is she died from the ecstasy, PERIOD! I have a copy of her autopsy report; there was no alcohol in her system. She took 2 pills.

The LA Times also reported that Isford was no stranger to ecstasy and there was a letter to the editor published which also brought up harm reduction.

Jim White from Oregon, Ohio wrote "Would Isford be here today if drug education included factual, honest information rather than zero tolerance, zero intelligence, zero responsibility and do-nothing, feel-good propaganda?
What?? Man where do I even begin with this one? How do you teach honest information about something that who knows who is making, what they are putting in the pills and how strong they are? Come on Get Real here!

If we had a second chance, would we tell her something else, something that might have saved her life, even if she didn't "just say no"?"
YES! I wish she had been able to see what happened to the other kids, before it was too late for her. When Cathy died, I was just getting the money together to buy my equipment to make the film. I couldn't stand the thought that another person died, before I could get the film out there.

What do we say now to Irma Perez's family? Irma and so many other teens DID NOT DRINK ANY ALCOHOL AT ALL! More on Irma real soon. I'll be talking to her sister who raised her, (their mother died young)

we’ll be talking about the Alcohol theory more!

Be back soon!

Take care and Please be safe!

Beth
P.S Be sure to look in at the comment section.

KETAMINE ALERT IN BIRMINGHAM

IT LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE STARTING TO WORRY ABOUT KETAMINE IN BIRMINGHAM. MY COMMENTS WILL SHOW UP IN BLUE. (BETH)
Parts taken from Global News Wire - Europe Intelligence Wire - Birmingham Post and Mail Ltd
Evening Mail
September 6, 2005
HEADLINE: ALERT ON NEW HIGH
BYLINE: ALISON DAYANI

A DANGEROUS hallucinogenic horse tranquillizer is sweeping Birmingham's clubland, it emerged today.

Ketamine is even overtaking ecstasy in the popularity stakes, shock findings by charity DrugScope reveal.

But even though the powerful veterinary anesthetic is legal, it can cause temporary paralysis, memory loss or even make the heart and lungs shut down if mixed with alcohol or other pills. ERIN ROSE ALMOST DIED FROM TAKING JUST KETAMINE. CLICK TO SEE ERIN NOW.

"People aged 18 to 25 are taking ketamine for a more trippy night out” You can spot them on the dance-floor because they're not dancing, they're sitting down in a vegetative state." He added that ketamine was being taken with crystal methamphetamine on the city's gay club scene and also by middle class people who like to party hard at the weekend and then go back to work in the week.

There are concerns over health risks associated with higher doses, including accidents due to lack of co-ordination, loss of consciousness and possible long-term damage to the memory.

You all need to know you can also stop breathing, like Erin and suffer permanent brain damage.

The singer Pink also overdosed on Ketamine about ten years ago! I just learned this myself. Interesting that "PINK" is Erin's favorite singer, she just loves her, especially the song "Bad Pill" Erin and I always felt, (got the really deep feeling she really knew from experience about overdosing) I guess we had it right!

A spokeswoman for Druglink, said: "The emergence of ketamine as a key substance of choice is an entirely new phenomenon since the last survey, when it didn't figure at all.

It comes in a variety of forms, ranging from liquid for injecting to a pill.

It first found its way on the club scene in 1992 when people took it thinking they were buying ecstasy.

Heiress Marcia Moore injected ketamine daily. She vanished in 1979 and her skeleton was discovered two years later. She had climbed a tree, injected all the ketamine she had, and frozen to death.

SOME OF THE LYRICS TO BAD PILL BY "PINK" ARE:

I'M LYING HERE ON THE FLOOR WHERE YOU LEFT ME, I THINK I TOOK TOO MUCH, I'M CRYING HERE, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUN.

PAMSFIGHT

On October 16th, 2005, my sister lost her battle with alcohol. She died from liver failure caused by drinking Everclear. It caused multi-organ failure.

She passed away around 1:00 am. That morning with all of her family by her side, I sat at her bedside until she took her last breath. We prayed and talked to her.

I am reading everything I can about Everclear and the more I read the more mad I become. How can we allow this to be produced and marketed when there is such a fatal outcome??

Just to tell how bad Everclear is, one doctor swore that her throat and stomach looked as if she tried to drink DRAIN-O. She left behind 3 wonderful kids and a 5 month old Grandson.

I am so heart broke...

To Pamsfight:

I am soooo sorry for your loss! Until you shared with us here what was happening with your sister, I had never even heard of Everclear! I’m sure there are so many others out there that don’t know about this either or how dangerous it can be!

When you feel up to it, I would really like to ask you some questions in order to help teach others that this is nothing to mess around with. So you take it easy, take your time and when you are ready will you please send me an email?

My heart goes out to all of you!! I just HATE THESE UNNESSESARY DEATHS!!!

Beth@voiceofthevictims.com