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Originally Posted by esad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
Besides knowing that water is poisonous, the list of notable cases is an interesting read of all the ways people have died from drinking too much water. Apparently this is also on the rise as more and more idiots buy into this "you gotta hydrate" meme and people go overboard with it.
I'm old enough to remember Anna Wood's death here, it was huge, multi-day front page news around the nation. Ecstasy deaths were almost unheard of here then, the cynical might observe that the media avalanche was probably also because, 15 or not, she was
a bit of a cutie. She was a real poster child for the idiocy of drug prohibition in that her death wasn't the result of taking MDMA at all, but was from the combination of two things: 1) advice that when taking MDMA you should "drink lots of water", which is good advice when dancing at sweaty raves but horrible advice elsewhere considering MDMA is known to increase the secretion of anti-diuretic hormone and 2) a reluctance on the part of her friends to seek help when she was unwell, due to worry about legal consequences. Her death was entirely due to misinformation and fear surrounding the prohibition of MDMA and if MDMA were legal she would be alive today. Didn't stop the family going on an anti-ecstasy crusade for the next decade.