Brit holidaymaker in hospital after suspected ecstasy overdose in Ibiza nightclub
The 21-year-old was rushed to hospital in the early hours of this morning
A BRITISH holidaymaker has been rushed to hospital after a suspected ecstasy overdose on party island Ibiza.
The 21-year-old man was taken from a nightclub in San Antonio to the Can Misses Hospital around 4am today.
He is in intensive care.
An American aged around 30 is also in the same hospital after an overdose.
The incidents are not thought to be connected, but the men were at the same club.
Only last week police warned clubbers in Ibiza dealers could be hawking lethal ecstasy pills.
Spanish cops say pills with five times the normal dose of MDMA are being sold.
Officers said a single tablet could kill.
They confiscated 90 of the pills during the arrest, all with the logo of a well-known Ibiza party.
Illegal ecstasy tablets are being flogged in the island's clubs
A source said the logo was Music On, a techno extravaganza now in its fifth season at island super club Amnesia, which was raided by armed police last month as part of a tax investigation.
The drugs were discovered after the arrests of two men accused of robbing nearly £10,000 from a hotel safe.
A police spokesman said: “The really alarming thing about this case is that an ecstasy tablet normally has about 80 milligrams of MDMA and in this case, the 90 pills which imitated the logo of a well-known Ibiza party, had 400mg.
The island is well known for its widespread availability of drugs
“This amount is around five times the normal dose and a single tablet can produce death.”
Brit drug dealer Ian Francis Smith, 38, was sentenced to six years in jail in April after admitting trying to smuggle a record 35,000 ecstasy tablets into Ibiza.
He was held after going to the island airport to retrieve a lost suitcase.
Teenage Brit Danielle MacCallum’s death on Ibiza last September was blamed on ecstasy she is said to have taken before her death.
Spanish medics linked the tragedy to the MDMA drug but relatives of the 18 year-old from Greenock, Scotland, insisted she fell ill after hurting herself in a fall.
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Nail technician Jodie Nieman, from Croydon, South London, died hours after taking two ecstasy tablets at a nightclub on the outskirts of Ibiza Town in July 2011.
Her mum Debbie, 50, said after tracking her daughters’ last movements during a trip to Ibiza that she was “disgusted” by the availability of drugs and the prevalence of drug pushers on the island.
Speaking in 2013, she said: “When we went over after Jodie’s death we were offered drugs on the beach during the day.
“We went to the club and spoke to people there and they said they were given pills for free.”