Skrillex’s highly awaited Navy Pier performance in Chicago was host to over a dozen hospitalizations following high drug use, confirmed by the venue’s spokesman. An EMS source told NBC Chicago that most of the hospitalizations were related to drug overdoses.
The President of CrowdRX, Andy Bazos shed some light on Chicago’s policy pertaining to who gets transported to hospitals versus who gets treated onsite:
“The policy in Chicago has been to take anyone who presents to the hospital,” Bazos said. “We’re there for people who haven’t been smart, and safety is number one.”
CrowdRX takes care of medical safety for SFX, which was the promoter for this event. Bazos went on to discuss his thoughts on the lack of an age limit for the show.
“It has brought a young, crazier demo,” he said, “but also immature. If their parents were there, they would have gone home with their parents. It’s not fair to make the promoter take care of kids who don’t know how to behave. … They’re young, and they’re often irresponsible.”
A total of 16 people were transported to 4 different hospitals during the show last Saturday.
Source: NBC Chicago
Lesson learned : QUIT MAKING EDM EVENTS THAT ALLOW KIDS UNDER 18 TO ATTEND….. OH WAIT SFX WOULD RATHER MAKE THE MONEY OFF OF YOUR KIDS OD’ING THAN ACTUALLY MAKING A SAFE CONCERT ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL.. GTFO WITH THIS GARBAGE.
Attention Media: Stop calling people falling out due to dehydration a drug overdose. >.<
The LD50 for MDMA (the amount you would have to take to have a 50% chance of dying from an ‘overdose’) is somewhere between 100mg/kg and 300mg/kg. Even assuming the extreme low end of that number, a 160 lb person would have to consume 7.25 grams of actual MDMA (not including non-psychoactive fillers) to ‘OD’.
That is 72 pills. At $15 a pill retail to ‘OD’ on MDMA you would need to drop $1,080.
Assuming it was on the high end, you can triple those numbers (to 216 pills, at a cost of $3,240).
Stop. Calling. These. Overdoses.
http://www.dancesafe.org/mdma-related-deaths-stop-calling-them-overdoses/
Where did the whole “kid” thing come from? I thought it said “over a dozen hospitalized” (which it does) and not “a dozen teenagers hospitalized.”
Getting OD’ed is so 80’s…. grow up and gain some responsibility, silly kids.
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I agree with the promoter, this scene is growing extremely fast and you’re getting a lot of new people coming to these events that arnt being smart about the things they do, while some of them may have been due to dehydration, some are also drug related, this scene has an association with drugs and you get these new people capitalizing on the first person to offer them drugs when the drugs may not be what the sellers claims them to be and that’s how people get hurt. Whether it’s dehydration or drugs, either way they arnt being smart about the things they do. I’m not saying people who do drugs arnt smart I’m just saying be smart about what you do.
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I was there and I didn’t see anybody getting sent. If anything I thought the medics were having a quiet night. This is crazy.
I was there. It was off the hook. People were pretty wasted. A good time was had by all.
I wonder what Skrillex’s thoughts about this are.
Its club music u should be 18+ to go peroid
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Drugs are a terrible thing, sorry for the guys who use drugs.