Two men in hospital after drug overdoses at Victorian music festival

Author : mamun Published: December 30, 2018

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December 31, 2018 15:31:23

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The Beyond The Valley festival is taking place at Lardner, near Warragul in Gipssland. (Facebook: Beyond The Valley)

Two men are in hospital after suffering drug overdoses at a music festival east of Melbourne.

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Both men were taken to hospital in a critical condition in separate incidents
Meanwhile, a man died after taking an unknown substance at another festival in Gosford, NSW
Falls Festival organisers have warned a “dangerous orange pill” is circulating Australia

Paramedics were called to the Beyond The Valley festival at Lardner, about 100 kilometres east of Melbourne, about 7:00am.

A man in his 20s was treated for a drug overdose and flown to the Royal Melbourne Hospital where he remains in a critical condition.

Early on Sunday morning, paramedics were called to the same festival to treat another man in his 20s for a drug overdose.

That man was taken to Dandenong Hospital in a critical condition, but his condition was later upgraded to stable.

The hospitalisations come in the wake of a man dying and two people being hospitalised after taking an unknown substance at the Lost Paradise music festival, west of Gosford in New South Wales.

The 22-year-old man, from the Brisbane suburb of Toowong, died in Gosford Hospital on Saturday night after attending the Glenworth Valley event.

Falls Festival warns of ‘orange pill’

Organisers of the Falls Festival — which is running at Marion Bay in Tasmania, Byron Bay in NSW and Lorne on Victoria’s Surf Coast — sent a text message to revellers yesterday warning about an “orange pill”.

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Monte Bovill tweets: This text message has just been sent to those at the Falls Festival site in Marion Bay, highlighting a dangerous drug is in circulation.

“Our medical teams have alerted us to a dangerous orange pill that is currently in circulation across Australia,” Falls Festival said in a statement.

“Regardless of pill variation, we want to remind everyone of the potentially fatal risks that come with illicit substances.

“You do not know what is in them, how your body will react, there is no safe level of consumption.

“One pill can kill.”

Organisers urged festival goers to look out for their friends and seek help from the medical teams immediately if they feel unwell.

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