RAVESBy: Zaide Garcia

7th pd

Thesis

If there were more securities checking everybody, raves would be safer.

Subtopics • Deaths• Arrests• Authorities • Drugs

16 Attending rave are hospitalized

More than 12,000 people attended a Halloween themed rave at Los Angeles Sports Arena. Sixteen people were hospitalized and forty were arrested. Organizers called it “America’s largest Halloween Dance Music Festival.”

She collapsed.

Rave casualties“A fifteen year old dies after rave,” this girl managed to slip underage into a downtown rave. Thousands of teenagers manage to slip under concerts, movies, and other age-restricted events, but they all don’t die because of that. The raver didn’t die because she was fifteen, she died because she took ecstasy.

She was another girl with the same casualty, except she was sixteen at the time.

Girl, 15, dies after weekend raveA fifteen year old died of a suspected

drug overdose after attending a rave at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum that had an age minimum requirement of sixteen. Family members identified her as Sasha Rodriguez, her mother told the news that she was supposed to be planning a Sweet Sixteen, not a funeral.

25 arrested, 17 hospitalized during rave

New Year’s Eve rave at Los Angeles Sports Arena had at least seventeen people hospitalized and more than two dozen arrested. The event had about forty five thousand revelers. Event promoter said that he was going to have new safety measures next time, an age-requirement entrance and amnesty boxes.

80 arrests, 16 medical calls at raves

Los Angeles Sports Arena held a love festival rave, that resulted eighty arrests and sixteen medical calls. Police said that most arrests involved fake IDs and involvement of drugs.

More than 100 arrested for drug, alcohol offenses at Bay Area rave

About forty thousand people attended the Beyond Wonderland concert. They had more than one hundred arrested were charged with furnishing or using illegal drugs such as Ecstasy, LSD and the stimulant GHB.

New York rave canceled after two deaths, apparently overdoses

Electric Zoo rave had two deaths the day before the last day of the festival. The two people died from ecstasy, or molly overdoses. Other four people became critically ill and were hospitalized. The organizers had worked with city officials to reduce health risks, but decided to cancel the last day to have it safer.

credits http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/rave

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravehttp://articles.latimes.com/keyword/rave/recent/2

http://www.soberinfo.com/news/2013/02/