The best friend of a woman who died from methanol poisoning on holiday has called on the government to do more to educate teenagers in schools about the dangers of drinking alcohol abroad. But, a few days later, 28-year-old Simone died in hospital. “The doctors kept saying it was food poisoning, which obviously didn’t help with trying to treat what was going on,” she says. In the ambulance on the way there our friend mentioned to the paramedic ‘could it be methanol poisoning?’ He’d done a little bit of research on his phone. “Just don’t let it be your best friend that dies from methanol poisoning.”https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx27r2z0zveo