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Drug Combinations
…and some common, careless accidents
“You
should never never doubt what nobody
is sure about.”
- Gene Wilder in the film, Willy
Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
LEARN ABOUT SPECIFIC DRUG COMBINATIONS HERE
The
Facts
 The
vast majority of people who die by
overdose have at least 2 different
kinds of drugs in their body. The
most common type of combination that
results in death is the mixture of
two or more depressants. Heart and
lung failure are often caused by too
many of these substances working
together to slow the breathing
process.
 Overdose
from the combination of two of the
following substances is far more
common than overdose from
stimulants. Alcohol, heroin,
methadone, benzodiazepines and
barbiturates.
 Some
people party with a bunch of
different substances. You can look
on a website and see that someone
died with heroin, cocaine, alcohol
and meth in their body. Your
immediate response might be that the
person was simply a jackass, but
problems usually begin with someone
using one drug to come down off of
another. If you have to do different
drugs, the goal should be to do them
one at a time. That way you actually
receive the desired effect from each
drug you are taking and not some
blurred version of a combination of
them. You will also reap the health
benefits.
How to
Have Fun and Not Die
The Drug Combinations chapter
starts what I think could be a great
conversation among people from all
over the world about what
combinations can be particularly
dangerous. Any one of us can go out
tonight and take a new combination
of drugs that lands us in the
hospital and almost kills us. All
I’m asking is that you help prevent
it from happening to the next person
by
writing about it. Refer to the
chapter called, The Website
for more information.
Anyway, here’s a bunch of stuff you
might not know yet.
DRUG COMBINATIONS
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