Mother watched son hallucinate on $15 MDMA at Sydney house party

The mother of a 14-year-old boy has described the horrifying moment her son collapsed in front of her after taking MDMA during a party at the family home.

Her son was having a house party and he looked horrendous.

The 14-year-old’s jaw was gnashing like mad, pupils were dilated, eyes were rolling back and he was hallucinating.

“It was terrifying to watch. As a mum, I have never been so distressed, all I could think about was that this kid could overdose before my eyes,” she said.

“My son had two tabs … it was MDMA.”

A mother is speaking out after her son took MDMA at a house party. (Pic: iStock)

The woman did not want to be identified to spare embarrassment to her son but felt compelled to speak out to let other parents know Sydney schoolchildren were buying MDMA at just $15 a pop for seemingly innocent teen gatherings.

She has also described the impact a 12-page feature on the drug for The Ripple Effect series has had on her son after he survived the chilling ordeal.

The party earlier this month turned sour at 10.30pm, in the boy’s own home where his parents and two other adults were supervising – they had even followed a government brochure on youth safety when planning the night.

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The house was stocked with food, water and soft drink. They expected some kids might try and smuggle in some grog, maybe even some cannabis.

“You can’t hide alcohol but you can hide MDMA,” the mother said.

“I knew (my son) had taken a pill. I challenged him and naturally he denied it but my husband managed to get the truth out of him.”

He needed to go to hospital but the house was filled with children so the woman stayed and her husband rushed the boy to emergency at a private hospital where he was medicated and survived the ordeal.

But the boy was off-colour for days.

“He was tired, emotional, short tempered for three or four days … he had chewed up all the inside of his mouth,” she said.

Her son has recovered and the woman is overwhelmingly grateful his case was not worse.

But she was terrified young dealers in her area were targeting her son with MDMA for just $15.

“I don’t give him copious amounts of cash each week but that’s the price of a KFC meal,” she said.

She said the network of people now associating with school children was enormous.

She said social media had allowed a “network of illicit knowledge” to build up, making it virtually impossible to for parents to watch who their children came in touch with.

“How do you rein everything back in. I keep a tight rein on my son but I’ve got to let him spread his wings,” she said.

She took The Ripple Effect feature, which included heartbreaking testimonials from four mothers who had lost children to drug overdoses, and placed it on her son’s bed on Sunday.

“He came downstairs and said ‘mum I’ve read it. I feel really sad. I don’t want to see this ever again’,” she said.

The woman said drug education courses should be introduced at a younger age in schools.

“They have all the exposure to the availability but none of the exposure to the risk and dangers,” she said.

“I just wouldn’t want another person to go through what we went through or to go through something worse than we did.”