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An increase in party pill users ending up in the intensive care unit in Christchurch Hospital is worrying medical staff.
A doctor, who would not give his name, says patients are often admitted to the Emergency Department in the weekend, suffering serious complications from using party pills or herbal highs.
The doctor says he is often dealing with party-goers who have mixed herbal highs with amphetamines and then injected themselves with the potentially fatal concoction of drugs.
His comment come as a Greymouth man is fighting for his life after combining party pills and alcohol.
Twenty-three-year-old Ben Rodden remains in Christchurch Hospital on life support after taking the herbal high Torque to stay awake at an all night rave.
Rodden was DJing at a dance party in Greymouth, when in the early hours of Sunday morning he started shaking uncontrollably. His mother Wendy says he had taken Torque to stay awake all night at the rave.
Doctors are not ruling out the possibility of permanent kidney, liver and brain damage.
