The parents of a man who died taking drugs six years ago have again called for legislation following the death of a teenager at a nightclub.
Andrew Cowan, right, pictured with his son Daniel, left, who died after taking a pill in 2016
Andrew, from Henley-on-Thames in Berkshire, said: ‘Reading about that poor girl I felt that hammer blow all over again.‘We lost a happy healthy lovely boy and six years later we’re still picking up the pieces.’ ‘It’s all over the place and you can guarantee any young person would be able to get hold of it or has been offered it.
‘There they’d get advice and safety warnings, and there’d be a whole interaction – and imagine what that would do to the black market. The pills would be manufactured by pharmaceutical companies and would be as safe as they can be.Andrew, now 61, said hearing about a teenager dying in similar circumstances was a ‘hammer blow’
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