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30.05.2023 - 10:39 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A teenager collapsed after just one puff of a vape purchased on Manchester's 'counterfeit street', an Oldham headteacher has warned.
Glyn Potts, headteacher at Blessed John Henry Newman RC College, spoke of how pupils were left 'shocked' and 'scared' after their classmate became unwell and passed out near the school gates after his first ever puff of a vape pen.
It was later revealed that the child had purchased the modified disposable vape, which claimed to contain CBD oil, in Cheetham Hill. Thankfully, the child made a full recovery from the incident - but Mr Potts is warning of the dangers of vaping on young people's health.
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"We don't know what is going in the vapes themselves, and a number of them are repurposed," he told the Manchester Evening News.
"We are seeing vapes that have been reignited with chemicals and toxins that we don't know about. That's certainly the case with the young man that collapsed at our school."
Mr Potts added that the pupil purchased the vape in the Bury New Road area of Cheetham Hill, known as 'counterfeit street,' and was told it contained CBD oil. However, he told the M.E.N there was 'no way of testing' if that was the case.
"It certainly overwhelmed that young person, and then he began to feel very very sick and collapsed," he said.
The incident isn't unique to Newman RC College, according to Mr Potts. He said a number of schools in the region have seen similar events as the number of vapes 'repurposed for illicit means' grows.
"Young people need advice and information that this type of device is not safe," he said. "Even in the most simple nicotine vape, they contain 12 times the amount of nicotine that a cigarette
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