News Article, #12

TEENAGE GIRL, KILLED BY DIET PILLS.
Sally Hayes, 17, death caused by popular pill, Acutrim.

Sally Hayes, a healthy athletic
girl, died Thursday night at Nyack Hospital NY. Cause of death; a cardiac arrest caused by the popular diet pill Acutrim.
Now doctors want to warn other girls from making the same mistake.

It was on Thursday evening young Sally Hayes was found lifeless in her bed by her maid, Paula. She looked like a sleeping
angel, Paula says.

Sally was according to her mother, Linda Hayes, an intelligent young
woman with her head on her shoulders. A top a student with high ambitions and very interested in culture. She adored the theater and was a very beautiful girl.
“Nothing in the world can give me my baby back”, Mrs. Hayes says. The family is in deep grief.

Mrs. Hayes can’t understand the sudden loss of her daughter. They’d both tried the diet pill with assurance from the pharmacist that they were completely safe. “Sally just wished to fit into her prom dress, that’s all she wanted” according to Linda Hayes with tears in her eyes.

Now Dr Albright sends out a warning to all teenage girls.
“A lot of pharmacists don’t tell clients about the lethal dose of Phenylpropanolamine and Ephedrine that these kinds of pills contain. Both are substances which are supposed to increase the blood pressure and the digestive system. This may cause, and highly increase, the risk for a stroke or cardiac arrest. ”

The family is planning to sue the pharmacist, and Acutrim INK,
for an unknown 7 figure allowance.