Doctors Call for End to "Drug Fest" Raves
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that local emergency room directors are calling for an end to raves like last weekend's Electric Daisy Carnival. They say that they prepared for the 2-day electronic music festival as a "multi-casualty incident," or the same way they would respond to a disaster such as the Chatsworth Metrolink train crash. The rave last weekend led to at least 63 arrests for drug possession, sale of narcotics, trespassing, and drinking in public, and scores of traumatic and drug-related injuries.
The Electric Daisy Carnival was held at the Los Angeles Coliseum and Exposition Park and drew 185,000 revelers. The company organizing the event, Insomniac, said it was the largest party of its kind in North America. The Coliseum is located on state land and is operated jointly by the city, county and state commission. The venue's manager says raves like the Electric Daisy Carnival are twice as profitable as a USC game. Emergency room directors, however, liken the raves to government-sanctioned drug fests that unnecessarily risk people's health and put a strain on emergency services.
Continue reading Doctors Call for End to "Drug Fest" Raves
