Friday, October 10, 2008

Teen Who Overdosed at Party Begged for Help - Ignored


Australia - Teenager Melanie Boyd begged her friends to call for help after taking a lethal cocktail of booze and drugs, an inquest was told. But by the time an ambulance was called, three hours after she was found "blue" and "struggling to breathe", the popular Townsville private schoolgirl, 16, was dead. In a tearful apology yesterday, Matthew Aubrey, 20, told an inquest into her June 2006 death that the first-time drug taker wanted to call for help when two fellow drug users at the "pharm party" fell into fits of convulsions. But the six partygoers talked each other out of calling for an ambulance - because they did not want to involve the police. More... Magazine Lane - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Holland USA