Ecstasy coma girl’s mother makes appeal

Title

Ecstasy coma girl’s mother makes appeal

Genre

Press conference

TX Date

3 Jan 1996

Year of production

1996

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Duration

00:00:19

Description

A young Peterborough woman, Helen Cousins, took a single ecstasy tablet at a New Year’s Eve party in a local nightclub and fell into a coma. Her mother Janet makes an emotional appeal for young people to avoid the drug and for help in tracing the source of the tablet which made her daughter ill.

Contributors

Janet Cousins

Keywords

Health; Drug abuse; Illegal drugs; Family; Ecstasy (drug); Helen Cousins; Mothers; Peterborough

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