A YOUNG man’s death after taking ecstasy tablets on a night out has prompted warnings to other people to be aware of the dangers.

David Glascock, 24, died in Maidstone Hospital five days after taking eight ecstasy tablets during a night out with friends.

It was not the drug alone that led to his death, however, but the fact that he went clubbing and danced through the night after taking it, an inquest heard.

Pathologist Dr David Rouse said an evening of energetic dancing and partying after Mr Glascot had taken the drug meant he had been unaware that his body was overheating.

He did not realise he was developing chronic muscle damage and proteins were leaking into his body, leading to his death.

Mr Glascock, a labourer, had taken some cocaine, the ecstasy tablets and drunk some vodka on a night out in Maidstone before being found in a “collapsed state” at his home in Epsom Close, Maidstone, the next morning.

He was taken to A&E at Maidstone Hospital and transferred to intensive care, suffering acute renal and liver failure, but died.

Dr Rouse said: “This is a classic case of someone who has over-exercised after ecstasy consumption.

“Sometimes I don’t think the message goes out that if you are taking ecstasy and exercising you are putting your life in danger.”

Dr Rouse said although many clubs had cool rooms and water available, many young people did not realise that it was vital to keep hydrated when taking a drug like ecstasy.

He gave the medical cause of death as MDMA (ecstasy) poisoning in conjunction with physical exertion.

He added that in America there were virtually no fatalities as a result of using ecstasy, because people used it to chill out at home but England suffered more fatalities because they mixed it with clubbing.

Recording a verdict of misuse of drugs, coroner Roger Sykes said: “If a lesson is to be learned from this very sad death it is in the context of taking ecstasy in a party or dance situation where history shows that these fatalities most often occur.”