Teen dies taking ecstasy for first time on night out
A teenager has died after taking ecstasy for the first time during a night out clubbing.
Drake Morgan-Baines collapsed after swallowing the party drug, one which had a Tesla logo copied onto the pill.
The 19-year-old from Newport, Wales was on a night out clubbing with friends in Bristol.
His devastated mother, Sheleen Morgan, 40, warned that one pill of ecstasy, or MDMA, was enough to kill.
"Hospital staff told us it was high-potency MDMA and, because it was the first time he had taken any, it was too powerful for him," she said.
"He got unlucky as his body couldn’t cope. One pill is enough to be in the same position we are in.
"We have been left in total devastation."
Mr Morgan-Baines, an IT analyst, was known to his friends as ‘Drizzy’ and was described as an ‘extremely loving, family man’.
His father, Roy Baines, 40, said his son had a special relationship with his girlfriend, Megan Whitehead, 18.
"Drake had a short stay on Earth, but he had a very happy life," Mr Baines said.
"He had all the love in the world and had a beautiful girlfriend with whom he had a special relationship.
He went into cardiac arrest after taking the pill in Motion nightclub in Bristol, and suffered from a brain seizure on November 5.
We knew he was a very special boy – but this confirms that everybody else knew that as well," Mrs Morgan said.
A spokeswoman for the nightclub said they were deeply saddened to hear of the death and extended their "deepest sympathy to his friends and family at this sad time".
"In the early hours of Sunday morning he was brought to the medic room in Motion where he was treated immediately and an ambulance called," the spokeswoman said.
"He sadly passed away at Bristol Royal Infirmary a few hours later."
A fundraising page has been set up to cover the expense of his funeral.
