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Benzos friend's potential overdose?

dick_wolfgang

dick_wolfgang

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my friend (male, 21, over 6 feet but very thin) took about 40mg of alprazolam (he's not prescribed it at all) with a fairly low tolerance about 10 hours ago and drank whiskey although i'm not sure how much and he wasn't either. (he prescribed adderal and probably took that earlier today also) we brought him back to my house and he was awake and somewhat responsive (talking, able to walk although clumsy, drinking water, etc). now he's asleep and i'm watching him. his breathing doesn't seem shallow or slow at all and he's moving around like he normally does while sleeping. basically i was wondering if the time for concern has passed or if he could still stop breathing in his sleep at this point. i'm getting tired and would like to also sleep tonight but i'm obviously worried and nervous about leaving him to sleep without someone watching him.
 
40mg is a huge dose, there's no way anyone on the Internet can tell you that is safe.

Are you sure that is the correct dose?
 
The average dose for someone with NO tolerance is around 0.5-1mg. 1mg is enough to pretty much knock someone out, if they have zero benzo tolerance.. For someone with 'low tolerance' - 2-5mg should be enough to put them to sleep pretty quick..

40mg is.. huge.. like.. really huge.. Only times I've seen someone eat that much (xanax) is when they're chronic abusers, even then, I think the most I've ever seen someone consume in a 10hr period is about 25-30mg.
 
dick_wolfgang said:
he's still sleeping, but yeah probably. i'm not sure how much he's eaten lately. :/
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If he is still sleeping,

YOU NEED TO KEEP WATCHING HIS BREATHING CLOSELY, KEEP WATER BY YOU AND SPLASH HIS FACE IF HIS BREATHING IS SLOWING DOWN, WAKE HIM UP FROM TIME TO TIME.

Someone should watch him until he wakes up and seems sober.
 
Google says the half life of that is around 11hours, so he's in no way out of the water. That said - for ODs, it is very rare to only include the benzo, in almost all cases either alcohol, opiates or some other drug is implicated. So depending how much he did actually drink, the risk may be fairly low. But people certainly can OD from the benzo alone and that is a ridiculous dose, why did he eat so much? That is just crazy, for someone with low tolerance, that is borderline suicidal.
 
i know the dose is massive. i honestly didn't think a person could consume that much and not die, but he insisted i didn't call anyone and the fact that he was talking and texting and walking appeased me a little. it's been probably like 10 hours since he took them now and he woke up about an hour ago and was responsive and is asleep again, so i'm slightly less worried. he had said he took "15-20" and specified bars when i asked, but maybe he didn't understand and meant milligrams. i guess he and his long distance girlfriend got in a fight, so he was being irresponsible. i've been watching him all night and still am at the moment. i really appreciate people actually replying. i've never had such genuine/timely responses on a forum (from all of you, not just mostly-human) before.
 
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