Two young men die after Syd music festivals

One man collaped at the Knockout Outdoor festival yesterday in Olympic Park and died later at Concorde hospital, according to The Daily Telegraph.A Listen Out attendee collapsed yesterday at a Chippendale hotel before he was taken to St Vincents hospital where he died. Autopsies will be carried out for the two men to determine their cause of death, which is not yet known.More information will be updated as it comes. Last year’s Listen Out and Knockout festival saw 18 hospitalisedLast year, Knockout Outdoor festival, which had an attendance of over 44,000, saw 12 people taken to hospital, most of which were suspected drug overdoses. Additionally, Listen Out 2022 saw more than 20,000 people embark on the festival grounds, with six taken to hospital. Earlier this year a 26-year-old Commonwealth Bank employee died at Sydney’s Transmission festival from a suspected overdose. According to police, over 130 people were treated at the Transmission Festival back in February, where several complaints were made thought to be related to drug use and heat exhaustion. “At least 12 people were transported by NSW Ambulance paramedics to hospitals for further treatment relating to drug use, with seven of those patients requiring intubation,” police said.Coronial inquest recommended pill testing A coronial inquest took place after six people died at NSW music festivals between December 2017 and January 2019, The six people, Alex Ross-King, 19, Joshua Tam, 22, Callum Brosnan, 21, Diana Nguyen, 21, Joseph Pham, 23, and Nathan Tran, 18, all died during or just after attending festivals across NSW, including Knockout Circuz and Knockout Games of Destiny, both of which are Hardstyle United Events. The inquest found that MDMA was “the major casual factor” in each of the drug-related deaths, and recommended that medically supervised drug testing take place at NSW music festivals. The inquest also recommended decriminalising personal use of drugs and removing sniffer dogs, which the report stated has a link between harmful consumption - including panic ingestion or inserting drugs in vaginal or anal cavities. Via news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site https://www.news.com.au