The recent concert of Avicii at Boston's TD Garden arena Wednesday ended with a medical drama that shed light to how easy teens could get club drugs for their use.
ABC News reported that 36 attendees of the electronic dance music show of the Swedish disc jockey had to be taken to hospitals following complaints of illness which were apparently fueled by potential intake of illicit drugs, officials have said. Another 50 of the partygoers were treated on site. The nine patients brought by first responders at the Tufts Medical Center and 13 to the Massachusetts General Hospital did not contain nonlife-threatening injuries, hospital officials have said.
Signs of taking popular club drug named "Molly," which is a form of ecstacy, were exhibited by some of the victims.
Concert attendee Chad Dyson told ABC News, "There was a girl all alone, she was passed out for some time. She was limp. Shortly after that, she started vomiting. They had EMS come by and actually took her away in a chair, strapped her down and took her out of the venue. I counted five separate ambulances and almost, they even had like a mobile command center set up as well, looked like a mobile command fire truck."
ABC News said the incident follows a harrowing trend of drug-related emergencies in concerts. Just last month, around 30 people were sent to the hospital due to alcohol and drug-related issues at another Avicii concert. Last year, three deaths that occurred at the Electric Zoo Festival in New York City and at a ZED Concert at Boston's House of Blues were tied to Molly overdoses.
Hours after his Boston show, Avicii, whose real name is Tim Bergling, offered his thoughts to the victims on Twitter.
He wrote, "Its [sic] a terrible thing, I rly [sic] hope everyone is ok! My thoughts go to those affected & their families."
