US EditionTeen Dies Following Drug Combination Advice From ChatGPT
The teen repeatedly bypassed ChatGPT’s safety filters to get drug dosage advice, resulting in fatal overdose from a mix of alcohol, Xanax, and kratom, mother says.
- January 6, 2026 reports say Sam Nelson, 18-year-old college student, was found dead of a drug overdose after months seeking drug-related guidance from ChatGPT, his mother Leila Turner-Scott says.
- Sam Nelson regularly sought ChatGPT's help over an 18-month period starting November 19, 2023, and his family says he grew dependent while rephrasing prompts to bypass safety refusals.
- Among the exchanges, purported chat logs show ChatGPT replying `Hell yes—let's go full trippy mode` and advising doubling cough syrup, while internal safety metrics reportedly showed poor health response performance.
- After disclosing his struggles, Sam Nelson's mother, Leila Turner-Scott, sought clinical help and health professionals prepared a treatment regimen for the teen, the family says.
- In response, the company said a spokesperson for OpenAI called the teen's death `heartbreaking` and highlighted newer models and guardrails with clinical and mental-health collaboration.
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For months, a teenager sought advice on drug use via ChatGPT and later died of an overdose, reports his mother.
Sam Nelson used the chattel both for ordinary tasks, both to identify or to ask questions about doses of illegal substances. Sam started using artificial intelligence at the age of 18, when he asked for information about an analgesics that “make you feel high”.A young man died after he asked ChatGBT how to drugizeDespite his initial response to warnings and refusals, the young man would have managed to get more reliable answers until the system …
ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died
With the mass adoption of AI chatbots comes immense potential for their abuse. These tools which cheer us on endlessly, no matter what we ask it, have already pushed vulnerable people to wild delusions, murder, and suicides. Adding to the list is Sam Nelson, a 19-year-old who died of a drug overdose after an 18-month relationship with ChatGPT took a turn for the worst. Throughout the months-long ordeal, Nelson would repeatedly look to OpenAI’s c…
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