Article: Ecstasy -- A Deadly Drug In A Small Package

[CG119]

Ecstasy -- A Deadly Drug In A Small Package

POSTED: 3:49 pm PDT April 28, 2005
UPDATED: 12:28 am PDT April 29, 2005
This article is about my friends little sister. I wanted to post this article for thoes of us with younger childeren in hopes this will prevent this from happening to them. If you go to the link below there and search Irma Perez you can find out more about what happend. Thanks CG119

BELMONT -- It looked rather harmless, just a small pink pill. But the Perez family can tell you just how deadly the recreational drug Ecstasy can be. It killed 14-year-old Irma Perez at what was supposed to be a harmless sleepover with her eighth grade girlfriends last year in Belmont.

Now, her 27-year-old sister -- Imelda Perez -- has launched her own campaign to warn junior high students across the country of the drug's hidden dangers.

"A lot of teens say ecstasy's fun, it's going to make you feel good, it's the love drug, well, that didn't happen for my sister," Imelda tells a group of teens sitting intently listening to her.




She goes into graphic detail of what happened to her beloved little sister -- a headache, severe stomach pain, shortness of breath, loss of bladder control and then convulsive vomiting.

"She vomited through the hallway, she vomited in the bedroom," Imelda told the young teens without pulling any punches.

"She said she felt something in her throat like a dead person. When I asked the doctors what that was they said it was her airway that was blocked and that was making her not get oxygen to her brain. She told her friends that she needed help and that she was dying. Her friends ignored her and decided to call the drug dealer."

Perez describes how the alleged drug dealer tried giving her sister marijuana. When that didn't work, Perez says, he left.

"She told her friends I know I'm dying," Imelda said. "To tell my family that I love them because she knew she was going away and that her friends were probably not going to call nobody to help her out."

Only hours after her distress began, did her friends tell the parents of the girl who was having the sleepover. They called Imelda, who rushed over to get her ailing sister.

"As I was walking down the stairs, I could hear my sister moaning, moaning in the pain she was feeling," Imelda said. "When I got there to the room my sister looked horrible, her face was swollen, and her eyes were halfway shut."

Irma Perez fell into a coma and died a short time later.

Now, Imelda Perez has taken on the unpaid role of an anti-drug advocate. The Federal Drug Enforcement Agency has asked her to team with them going around the country telling Irma's story to teenagers.

"I was a stupid mistake that she made that ended her life and that's what I want to tell the kids," Imelda said of her new role.

"You're never going to come back again. Once you're dead, you are dead," she added. "And the person who stays suffering are your parents, your sisters, your brothers, your family. Not your friends. The next day, a couple of months later, they're going to find a new friend. And how about you? You're going to be six feet into the ground."





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[witchlinblue]

CG119 that was a very heart felt story. Though the story is sad, there is something good that is coming out of it as she crusades her little sisters story and hopefully it will turn some young minds around and their families wont have to go threw her pain.
Thank you for sharing that with all of us.

Witchlinblue