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	Leah Betts - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Leah Betts was a godfearing teetotal who is most remembered for her analysis of Genesis' Greatest Hits album.
		Sadly, Leah passed away in the summer of 3AD as a result of leprosy but, due to the stigma of the disease at the time, her passing was attributed to the holocaust.
		Leah appeared on Eastenders in 1998 playing the role of Harry Slater but this concept was soon discontinued by the producers when Michael Elphick died of fatness.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Leah_Betts (155 words)

	Leah Betts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Leah Betts (November 1977 - November 16 1995) was a schoolgirl from Latchingdon, Essex, Britain.
		The press were quick to report that Leah's death was an obvious example of the dangers of illegal drugs in general, and ecstasy in particular.
		Leah was from a quite ordinary family, with her father a policeman and her mother a nurse.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/le/leah_betts.html (187 words)

	Leah Betts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A photograph of Leah Betts in a coma, used in an anti-drug campaign.
		Leah Betts (November 11, 1977 - November 16, 1995) was a schoolgirl from Latchingdon in Essex, United Kingdom.
		She is notable for the extensive media coverage that followed her death several days after her 18th birthday, on November 11, during which she took an Ecstasy tablet, then collapsed four hours later into a coma, from which she did not recover.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leah_Betts (388 words)

	Leah Betts — 10 Years On - News and Politics - Non-Gaming - Discussion Forum /// Eurogamer
		Interesting article on the Beeb today, mostly focusing on how the parent of Leah Betts have given up campaigning against Ecstasy, as they feel disillusioned that the government is relaxing their stance on it more and more.
		Leah Betts died right in the middle of that stage in my life when me and a lot of my friends were pissing about with soft drugs, and I remember it being an incredibly significant event at the time Sad to think that her parents still don’t have closure.
		In Leah's case, excessive water consumption was exacerbated by the ecstasy causing her body to release anti-diuretic hormones, stopping a normal level of urination that could have saved her.
	www.eurogamer.net /forum_thread_posts.php?thread_id=42199 (1008 words)

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		To say she died from drinking water is not a good story, and the fact that she was a regular Ecstasy user might lead to the suspicion that her death was due to a panic reaction brought on by her parents being in the next room with their intolerant attitudes.
		Leah's stepfather could perhaps be forgiven, on the grounds of it being a thoughtless emotional response, for demanding that whoever supplied his daughter with the tablet that killed her should be charged with murder and deserved to be hanged.
		The person who actually supplied Leah was her best friend, another teenager, but although she could face life imprisonment, she will probably not even be charged, presumably because she does not fit the image of the mythical drug peddler in dirty raincoat.
	www.ecstasy.org /info/dangers.html (1121 words)

	Drugs - Ecstasy - LEAH BETTS DIED OF DRINKING WATER TO COUNTER DRUG'S EFFECT
		Leah Betts, the teenager who collapsed after taking an Ecstasy tablet, died as a result of drinking too much water, which made her brain swell.
		Although she had not been dancing energetically for hours, it is understood that when Leah began to feel unwell at the party she made repeated trips to the bathroom to drink water.
		Leah's case attracted national attention after her parents tried to alert young people to the dangers of drug-taking, releasing a photograph of her in intensive care.
	www.urban75.com /Drugs/drugxtc1.html (815 words)

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	Bett Homes
		Leah was from a quite ordinary family, with her father a policeman and her mother a nurse.
		Betts had consumed about 7 litres (1.85 gal.) in less than 90 minutes, resulting in water intoxication and hyponatremia (a dilution of the blood, disrupting sodium levels), which in turn led to serious swelling of the brain (cerebral edema), irreparably damaging it.
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	www.artistbooking.com /trips/20/bett-homes.html (1217 words)

	Bernard O'Mahoney - Essexboys - The Triple Rettendon Murders - Articles - ??/??/?? - Leah Betts is dead
		When Paul Betts, a retired policeman, and his wife Janet, a nurse, allowed newspaper cameramen to the bedside of their comatose daughter that week, they were aware of what they were doing.
		Paul Betts' personal response to the death of his daughter was to embark on a campaign of firebrand anti-drug evangelism.
		In the national psyche, Leah Betts was already a manifestation of the formless terror of encroaching E culture, ranking alongside the smiley face, Mr C performing 'Ebeneezer Goode' on Top Of The Pops and Keith Flint's scary haircut.
	www.bernardomahoney.com /rrmurders/articles/lbid.shtml (3439 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| The legacy of tragic Leah
		The image of Leah Betts in hospital, connected to a life support machine, was one of the most harrowing to be shown in the British media in the 1990s.
		Petra Maxwell, of DrugScope, says it is unlikely the death of Leah and her parents' campaigning did anything to reduce ecstasy use.
		In Leah's case, excessive water consumption was exacerbated by the ecstasy causing her body to release anti-diuretic hormones, stopping a normal level of urination that could have saved her.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4440438.stm (1226 words)

	Kevin Braddock \| Writing
		When it comes to mainstream reporting of club and drug culture in the UK today, there are myths and there are facts, and somewhere in between roams the ghost of Leah Betts, the ‘ecstasy girl’ who slipped into a coma after taking a pill on the night of her 18th birthday party.
		In the national psyche Leah Betts was already a manifestation of the formless terror of encroaching E-culture, ranking alongside the smiley face, Mr C performing "Ebeneezer Goode" on Top Of The Pops and Keith Flint's scary Firestarter jumper.
		Since 1996, Leah has remained the key motif in the vilification of E-culture, the imagery of her death constantly invoked in the right-wing press's faddish reporting on the dance scene.
	www.kevinbraddock.com /features07.php (3520 words)

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	THE CHEMICAL GENERATION AND ITS ANCESTORS. DANCE CRAZES AND DRUG PANICS ACROSS EIGHT DECADES
		Kempton died in her landlady's arms; Leah Betts' agonies were witnessed by her horrified parents.
		The principal representation of Leah Betts was iconic.
		One of the reasons that the youngsters charged in connection with Leah Betts' death did not become media scapegoats was that this would have interfered with a promising construction that began to arise in the background of the case.
	www.drugtext.org /library/articles/97833.htm (4081 words)

	'Ten years have passed - yet I'm still haunted by Leah's death' \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		The death of Leah Betts sparked a controversial new anti-drugs movement, but despite its shock tactics it has done little to reduce the number of young people experimenting with drugs.
		As Leah was transferred in a coma to intensive care at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, a police officer was reading Ms Cargill and the other guests their legal rights.
		An inquest found that her brain had swollen, which experts said was a result of her drinking a large amount of water in accordance with the advice given to ecstasy users at the time.
	www.guardian.co.uk /drugs/Story/0,2763,1604668,00.html (2030 words)

	The Sun Online - News: 10 years since Leah died
		Leah, from Latchingdon in Essex, took ecstasy at her 18th birthday party and a few hours later collapsed into a coma from which she never recovered.
		Pictures released by Mr and Mrs Betts of their daughter in intensive care, with tubes to her nose and mouth, shocked the country.
		It emerged later that it was not the first time Leah had taken the drug, and that the exact cause of her death was water intoxication after drinking nearly two gallons of fluid in 90 minutes.
	www.thesun.co.uk /article/0,,2-2005530211,00.html (581 words)

	TheDEA.org: Hyponatremia (Water Intoxication)
		Leah has taken 'ecstasy' on at least four prior occasions, and is familiar with drugs, as are her friends.
		As the party progresses, Leah drinks at least several alcoholic beverages, smokes some pot, and takes a pill of 'ecstasy', as do a number of her friends.
		Leah begins to experience something that many drug users will run into at some point in their lives: Anxiety/panic...what LSD users might call a 'bad trip'.
	www.thedea.org /hyponatremia.html (878 words)

	The Agony and the Ecstasy
		The death of Leah Betts 'was not due to the effects of Ecstasy but to water intoxication.' However if this was the case the Bettses seemed unwilling to make it public at the time, instead they championed the view that ecstasy itself led to their daughter's death.
		Either, as the advert would have it 'Just one ecstasy tablet took Leah Betts', or it was not ecstasy at all but death was actually caused by water intoxication, due to an excessive intake of water to combat the effects of dehydration.
		Clearly for Platt (1995) and Sharkey (1996) the death of Leah Betts acted as the touchstone for the onset of a moral panic.
	www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/lsd/murji.htm (7400 words)

	TheDEA.org: Hyponatremia (Water Intoxication)
		Leah has taken 'ecstasy' on at least four prior occasions, and is familiar with drugs, as are her friends.
		As the party progresses, Leah drinks at least several alcoholic beverages, smokes some pot, and takes a pill of 'ecstasy', as do a number of her friends.
		Leah begins to experience something that many drug users will run into at some point in their lives: Anxiety/panic...what LSD users might call a 'bad trip'.
	thedea.org /hyponatremia.html (878 words)

	Comments on 15339 \| MetaFilter
		I was listening to the mother of Leah Betts on the Today programme this morning.
		The problem for Mrs Betts is that these drugs are already legitamised in the eyes of those who use them and were long before her daughter even tried them.
		while we are on the subject of water intoxication (leah betts), again it is the information about this possible side effect of drinking too much water could have prevented leah's death.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/15339 (1709 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Education \| Leah Betts' parents back heroin photos
		The parents of teenage ecstasy victim Leah Betts have praised the decision to publish photographs of Rachel Whitear's death from a heroin overdose.
		Paul and Janet Betts, who lost their daughter on her 18th birthday, said the shocking images would save the lives of many young people.
		Mr Betts and his wife have since given talks at more than 2,300 schools and distributed a video called 'Sorted' about Leah's story and ecstasy to all secondary schools.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/education/1848638.stm (532 words)

	Drug Awareness Campaign
		Leah was not at a night club, or a rave when she took the single Ecstasy pill.
		Leah's parents took every step to ensure their house was as safe as it could be in case of any trouble, yet this did happen!
		Leah has gone and answers to questions will never bring her back but we, as a nation, must not let this tragedy go unmarked.
	www.schoolboard-scotland.com /drug_awareness/drug_awareness.htm (2366 words)

	The Sun Online - News: Soft Blair's failed my Leah
		THE parents of ecstasy victim Leah Betts yesterday quit their campaign to save kids from drugs after accusing Tony’s Blair’s government of failing them.
		The death of schoolgirl Leah in 1995 led to a massive anti-drugs campaign.
		Leah collapsed during her 18th birthday party at her home in Latchingdon, Essex.
	www.thesun.co.uk /article/0,,2-2005500829,,00.html (421 words)

	Ecstasy in Britain
		Betts was just what the media, the anti-drugs lobby, and most intriguingly, the breweries had been waiting for.
		Furthermore, although the coroner's report was murky and inconclusive, it identified as a major contributory factor the amount of water she had drunk.
		It emerged that the club in which Betts had taken the pill that killed her, and many more like it, was controlled by vicious criminals with no interest in the scene and the culture beyond the profit it could generate.
	www.ephidrina.org /ecstasy/britain.html (1178 words)

	DanceSafe: UK: Father's War On Drugs
		LEAH Betts died within 10 minutes of falling ill from an ecstasy tablet she had taken before her 18th birthday party.
		This drug-awareness drive is also targeted at parents who, Mr Betts says, cannot be expected to advise their children if they are also uninformed.
		Director Mr Andy Forbes said Paul had spoken to college students and staff in the past and the response was so good that they decided to open up this yeara TM s talk to its feeder schools.
	www.mapinc.org /safe/v02/n1018/a05.html (299 words)

	Sky News: Leah 'Helped Thousands'
		Leah Betts' Ecstasy death stopped thousands of other youngsters dying from drugs, the teenager's parents have told Sky News.
		Paul and Jan Betts said their 18-year-old daughter's death 10 years ago may even have had more of an affect than the Government's anti-drugs drive.
		Leah died on November 1 1995 after taking an Ecstasy pill at a party at the Betts family home in Latchingdon, Essex.
	news.sky.com /skynews/article/0,,30000-13463908,00.html (419 words)

	Funeral of Leah Betts filmed for anti-drugs video \| 1990-1999 \| Guardian Century
		The friends, neighbours and family of Leah Betts, the teenager who died three weeks ago after taking the drug ecstacy, mourned her yesterday at her funeral, which was filmed for a drugs prevention video to be shown in all British schools.
		Leah collapsed at her 18th birthday party after taking an ecstasy tablet.
		A photograph of her on a ventilator became a powerful image in the propaganda war against drugs.
	century.guardian.co.uk /1990-1999/Story/0,,112741,00.html (96 words)

	Leah's Deadly Legacy; 10 years after Ecstasy killed Leah Betts, kids aged 14 sell it at 50p a pop on streets near her ...
		Leah's Deadly Legacy; 10 years after Ecstasy killed Leah Betts, kids aged 14 sell it at 50p a pop on streets near her home and teenagers brag: We take 5 or 6 a night.(News) - The People (London, England) - HighBeam Research
		Leah's Deadly Legacy; 10 years after Ecstasy killed Leah Betts, kids aged 14 sell it at 50p a pop on streets near her home and teenagers brag: We take 5 or 6 a night.(News)
		While Leah's one fatal pill on her 18th birthday cost pounds 10, children as young as 14 get "sweeties" of E for just 50p a pop - well within their pocket-money budget.
	www.highbeam.com /doc/1G1-138361693.html (226 words)

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