Wow, this thread is very heavy. I'll share some of my experiences. Maybe they can help others. Before I get to accidental ODs, I will mention that I did attempt suicide twice as a teenager with pills. I was raped when I was twelve years old and then I was sexually assaulted again when I was 14. I never told anyone at the time so I never got any type of of counseling. On top of that I had other things going on in my life and I was really depressed and suicidal. I felt I had no way out.
Anyway, the first time I took a large amount of acetaminophen and I just got really sick for a week. I was 14 years old. The second time I had these pills that my uncle wasn't taking anymore. At the time I thought they were just tranquilizers. They weren't, they were Haldol, an antipsychotic. Well, I took all of them and washed them down with a bunch of vodka. I passed out for over 24 hours. When I woke up I started having a tonic clinic seizure or what they call dystonia. The muscles in my body were bending backwards and I couldn't breathe. My eyes were rolling in my head and I couldn't speak. My father came home from work and found me. He rushed me to the ER and they gave me benadryl and valium to stop it. They said that if I had gotten there a little later I would have died.
For accidental ODs, I was doing cocaine with my friend one time. I could feel that it was time to quit for awhile but she told me that there was enough left for two big lines and we should just go ahead and do it. I was a teenager and I guess I didn't want to look like I couldn't handle my drugs or something because even though I felt like I had already had too much, I did that last big fat line. It was a big mistake! My heart was pounding in my chest and my hands were shaking. I couldn't stop pacing. Luckily I didn't die.
The second time I ever did heroin the friend I was with gave me too much to snort. I didn't know too much about the drug so I was trusting her on the dosage. I ended up vomiting twelve times that night! I threw up when I tried to eat the next day too.
There were times when I did too much OxyContin and got sick and threw up.
The first time I tried meth when I was sixteen I didn't know much about it. The guy gave me way too big of a line and I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I ended blacking out. I hate that drug anyway.
That's all I can think of right now. God, that was fucking depressing typing that shit.