Yes...I think some comments I read about this suggest that the drug was made haphazardly—and maybe that plus simply overdosing is enough to cause the deaths
NY Daily News quoted the father of victim Jeffrey Russ:
>>“Now there will be no grandchildren, no nieces, no nephews, no wedding,” Russ’ heartbroken father, John Russ, told the Daily News. “Everything you look forward to in life is gone because of one pill.”...The 6-foot-3, 270-pound Russ was taken to Harlem Hospital after Friday’s concert, when he began exhibiting signs of an overdose at 3:10 a.m. He died at 3:21 a.m., cops said.
2 comments to NYDailyNews article:
>>but they have no clue what they are doing to their bodies. This drug interferes with body’s ability to control its temperature. It’s causing core body temperature rising too high until the major organs shut down at about 42°C (107.6°F). Mix that with hot and humid weather and you are in full suicidal mode. My wife works in ICU at the hospital so she tells me that this is the second most common reason people die from “ecstasy”.