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Leah Betts
Leah Sarah Betts (1 November 1977〔(Deaths England and Wales 1984-2006 )〕 – 16 November 1995) was a schoolgirl from Latchingdon in Essex, England, United Kingdom. She is notable for the extensive media coverage and moral panic that followed her death fifteen days after her 18th birthday. On 11 November, she took an Ecstasy tablet, and then drank approximately 7 litres of water in a 90-minute period. Four hours later, she collapsed into a coma, from which she did not recover.
==Initial press and public reaction==
The press reported that Betts' death was an example of the dangers of illegal drugs in general, and MDMA in particular.〔Collin, Matthew and Godfrey, John (1998). ''Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House'' (2nd edition) Serpent's Tail. page 300. ISBN 978-1-85242-604-0.〕 Her 45-year-old mother Dorothy May Betts had died of a heart attack in 1992, but, otherwise Betts was from a quite ordinary family; she lived with her father Paul Betts (an ex-police officer), her stepmother (a nurse) and her brother William, who was born seven years after her.〔(Rose strangled by a weed )〕 The fact that her life reflected so many other middle-class families in Britain may have contributed to the sense of shock around the country after her death. It was suggested that the pill she had taken was from a "contaminated batch." Not long afterward, a major 1,500-site poster campaign used a photograph of a smiling Leah Betts (not a picture of her on her deathbed, as some sources〔Carey, Jim (March 1997). (Recreational Drug Wars: Alcohol Versus Ecstasy ) — referenced from the book ''Ecstasy Reconsidered'', Nicholas Saunders, 1997.〕 claim) with the caption ''Sorted: Just one ecstasy tablet took Leah Betts''. The campaign made no mention of the crucial role water intoxication played in her death. Alternative rock band Chumbawamba responded with their own "anti-poster" reading ''Distorted: you are just as likely to die from eating a bay leaf as from an ecstasy tablet''.
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