Finber Meter Kelly, a 27-year-old Irish tourist went to Ibiza in 2005 to know one of the islands with more night march of the planet. His vacation package included the income to the major discotheques that guarantee party three consecutive days. Finber passed 72 hours drinking, dancing and drugging himself especially, with GHB. A cardiorespiratory-stop, after a renal failure, put the final point to his history. He chose another way to spend his holidays.
“If it’s nightlife you’re after, you’ve come to the right island. Ibiza has a hedonistic heritage stretching back more than 30 years. Top clubs, on form djs, hot bands, a cosmopolitan mix of clubbers…”
If you goggle “Ibiza” on the Internet you can find this text in the website that appears on the top of the list. It seems that this place is wonderful but it also has a dark-side that a lot of people do not know. Nowadays is increasing the people that go to Ibiza for one purpose: do the things that they never would do in the country where they live. And most of those people are from United Kingdom.
This Spanish island located in the Mediterranean Sea about 80 km off the coast is definitely gorgeous. Ibiza is often called White Island (la Isla Blanca) and is the most beautiful of the Balearic Islands. Is has Amazing beaches densely covered with pine trees. It is also a paradise for shoppers.
In 2005, an important Spanish newspaper called El País, made a report called “The drug brakes Ibiza´s magic”.
In august the 8th of 2005 happened the first confirmed death in Spain by GHB (a
kind of drug bad common known as “liquid extasy”). The man dad died was Finber Meter Kelly, an Irish tourist.
It was not a case isolated: in the first fortnight of August there were 21 incomes for this drug. In the report you can also read that Can Mises, the hospital of Ibiza, is, with London, Berlin, and the Clinical one of Barcelona, one of the sanitary centres of the world that more poisoned gets by consumption of narcotics.
The population of the island is quadrupled in summer. Only in August in 2005, in this hospital, of less than 200 beds, they attended to 135 serious poisonings for consumption of drug, and 32 were cases of deep coma for GHB. The doctor of urgencies Alfredo Cenarro makes clear that the profile repeats itself. “80 % is foreign, males, nearby at the age of 25 and Anglo-Saxons,” said the doctor.
And this is only the top of the iceberg. “We attend to a minimal piece. Many of these commas that are attended in the door of the discotheques by sanitary peolpe, others pass it in his hotels or in the beach or the street,” makes clear doctor Cenarro.
After this first death by consuming drugs, people started to think about possible solutions to resolve this problem. Some people that live in the island think that the tourism had brought a lot of benefits for them like good roads or first marks shops but it also has lowered the quality of life. The Ibiza’s teenagers are the most precocious in consumption of drugs, according to a study on the consumption of narcotics realized is Spain. The island has also become a paradise for the drugs trafficants. Headlines of all the Spanish newspapers say that. In September 2005, the police arrested around 26 people.
Antena 3, one Spanish TV channel, emitted another report in 2005 where two boys were followed by journalist in a party-tour in Ibiza. The boys do not have any problem to show to the camera all the different kind of drugs that they take during a 48 hours-party.
So drugs are changing the image of this beautiful island where normally people go there for rest and enjoy its awesome beaches.
In the last edition of the informer (printed edition) it appeared an article about some students whose drinks have been spiked. Student Union is sending out an alert about that. The SU vicepresident Daniel Morville is very concerned about recent incidents happened in Lloyds bar.
All we know that Carlisle is not Ibiza, but drugs are everywhere so one possible prevention to do not get poisonated is to look after the drinks in the nights out.