British schoolboy dies after snorting heroin

Steak · 03-04-2008 01:16PM #1

Daily Mail wrote:

A schoolboy died after snorting heroin which he mistakenly thought was cocaine.

Francis Clapham, 16, bought the drug for £1 from a teenager in a park, an inquest heard.

But after sniffing the heroin with a friend he collapsed and was taken to hospital where he was put on a life-support machine.

The drug caused organ failure resulting in brain damage through oxygen starvation and he died two months later.

The inquest heard that Francis, who did not have a history of drug taking or dealing, was drinking vodka with a friend in a park in Nelson, Lancashire, when he decided to buy the drug.

full story here.

Sherifu · 03-04-2008 01:20PM

:-(

Francis's brother, Andrew, 19, said: "He thought it was cocaine and said that he and his friend had taken some.

"I only saw him taking a line of it but he might have had some more in his pocket. We had an argument about the drugs and he stormed out.

Nice brother, you think if he saw him taking it he could have stopped him. Maybe not.

kev_s88 · 03-04-2008 01:20PM

fookin idiot

what did he expect to happen from snorting heroin?

keen · 03-04-2008 01:23PM

kev_s88 wrote: »

fookin idiot

what did he expect to happen from snorting heroin?

He thought it was cocaine not heroin.

DarkJager · 03-04-2008 01:32PM

Obviously a very stupid person if he couldn't tell the difference between brown and white?

Dragan · 03-04-2008 01:38PM

And once again drug "education" continues to cost lives.

Stupid little ****er.

keen · 03-04-2008 01:39PM

DarkJager wrote: »

Obviously a very stupid person if he couldn't tell the difference between brown and white?

Indeed, must of drank the bottle of vodka or was colour blind.

TequilaMockingBird · 03-04-2008 01:45PM

DarkJager wrote: »

Obviously a very stupid person if he couldn't tell the difference between brown and white?

He was a 16 year old kid! :eek:

User45701 · 03-04-2008 01:51PM

i dont know to me it should have been Teen dies from... school boy makes it sound like 6th class or younger

Mossy Monk · 03-04-2008 02:26PM

One less idiot wiped from the gene pool.

Max_Damage · 03-04-2008 02:36PM

And the Darwin award goes too....

Sherifu · 03-04-2008 02:45PM

Max_Damage wrote: »

And the Darwin award goes too....

to

o/t is that a carmageddon avatar i see?

Max_Damage · 03-04-2008 02:47PM

o/t is that a carmageddon avatar i see?

Yes.

helimachoptor · 03-04-2008 03:01PM

If I saw my 19 year old bro with any drugs, he'd be getting a serious ass kicking.

Drugs are for mugs.

Mr. CooL ICE · 03-04-2008 03:08PM

Not all drugs are good...

...

Affable · 03-04-2008 03:19PM

kev_s88 wrote: »

fookin idiot

what did he expect to happen from snorting heroin?

~People do stupid things when drunk.

Dave! · 03-04-2008 03:23PM

I wonder would he have died if he had been given proper education about drugs beyond that they are evil. Same for those goons who were eating cocaine sandwiches (or whatever) a few months ago.

humanji · 03-04-2008 03:36PM

I doubt it. Stupid people generally end up killing themselves somehow. If they were given proper education about drugs they'd probably have died from chewing on electrical wires or something else they were told not to do.

blaze1 · 03-04-2008 03:42PM

Dragan wrote: »

And once again drug "education" continues to cost lives.

Stupid little ****er.

have to disagree with you there, went to school in the uk and think that (at the time bout 10 years ago!) the drug education was spot on.

Theres no rehab for stupidity however!

Toolbag · 03-04-2008 03:42PM

He should have watched Pulp Fiction

03-04-2008 03:44PM

The kid obviously never seen Pulp Fiction

invincibleirish · 03-04-2008 04:03PM

Drugs are like the the Daily Mail (which is the link) everyone knows how bad they are, yet both are still widely popular

Yes more popular then you and you're anti drugs ways

Typical AH poster response to drugs:

"i think drugs are terrible, i dont go near them, people who do are stupid"

yet all the drink threads where people go on about their *crazy* drunken antics always fail to amuse me

Does Boards represent the hypocrisy in Irish society of people having a double standard when it comes to Alcohol/Drugs?

Why yes it does.

humanji · 03-04-2008 04:55PM

You forgot the standar AH pro-drugs post: "but alcohol is legal!" Oh wait, you made that exact point...

Dennis the Stone · 03-04-2008 06:18PM

He got great value, £1 is cheap as chips

Shield · 03-04-2008 06:23PM

Tago Mago wrote: »

He got great value, £1 is cheap as chips

Where can you get chips for £1?

slipss · 03-04-2008 06:50PM

DarkJager wrote: »

Obviously a very stupid person if he couldn't tell the difference between brown and white?

Heroin can be white. I'd imagine that was the case in this incident.

pyure · 03-04-2008 07:35PM

buying heroin in the park from a teen for a quid ? what's the world coming to ?
on a side note is anyone else concerned with the fact that he contracted mrsa in hospital and had a reaction to the antibiotics ?

Tha Gopher · 03-04-2008 08:36PM

DarkJager wrote: »

Obviously a very stupid person if he couldn't tell the difference between brown and white?

Well seeing as you dont know of the existence of white heroin, meh tbh.

Im wondering how he bought it for a quid.

Pure or near pure heroin can be snorted for effect, its the most common method in the US, however if rapidly loses its affect, causing people to begin injecting it.

The Real B-man · 03-04-2008 09:12PM

a £1 for Heroin

Bottle_of_Smoke · 03-04-2008 09:16PM

invincibleirish wrote: »

Drugs are like the the Daily Mail (which is the link) everyone knows how bad they are, yet both are still widely popular

Yes more popular then you and you're anti drugs ways

Typical AH poster response to drugs:

"i think drugs are terrible, i dont go near them, people who do are stupid"

yet all the drink threads where people go on about their *crazy* drunken antics always fail to amuse me

Does Boards represent the hypocrisy in Irish society of people having a double standard when it comes to Alcohol/Drugs?

Why yes it does.

Alcohol's not a drug, it's a drink!

MySelf56 · 03-04-2008 10:03PM

I am not surprised at all. It is just beginning..

I think teenagers have lack of parental guidance, peer pressure and access to illegal substances are spooling their entire precious childhood.

It is becoming Teengers Vs Society. Society blames their parents. But parents are part Society it is going circles. Shop owners are buying some Ultra sonic devices to repel them. Teens will simply say they got bored. Of course you will get bored if you hang around same shopping mall day after day.

I never understand why they hang around shopping malls with 3 inch make up girls? Boys will wear those white stripe trousers which are meant to wear to go to gym or jogging. By the look of them they never run. If they ever run they might collapse. Why can’t they buy ball/ hurley stick and play around?

There is good article about Teenagers sexual habits and drug hobbits in Sunday times. Coincidently another article by Time magazine about teenagers this month (European Edition)

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725547,00.html

It is going to worst thanks to Internet.

British schoolboy dies after snorting heroin

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