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Heroin Help is my friend overdosing right in front of me???!!!

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Wolfmans_BrothEr

Wolfmans_BrothEr

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He just shot two bags of #4 dope. He's Breathing and his heart rate seems elevated. I'm slapping him screaming at him and he won't wake up. And he just started sweating profusely.


He has a tolerance and isn't opiate nieve at all. I think he took a Xanax before shooting up. What should I do??
 
I don't have any experience with heroin but I'm pretty sure an OD with it would consist of a very slow and faint heartbeat, not an elevated one. Correct me if I'm wrong.
 
It's respiratory depression you have to watch out for. Heartbeat increases due to less oxygen being delivered. Normal respiratory rate for an adult is 12-20 breaths per minute. Easily monitored signs of hypoxia are lips and fingernails turning blue. For the record.

If you're that concerned, yes call an ambulance. It's not worth someone losing their life, and heroin overdose isn't something to fuck around with.
 
Youngling said:
I don't have any experience with heroin but I'm pretty sure an OD with it would consist of a very slow and faint heartbeat, not an elevated one. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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It generally would...but if you can't wake him and are concerned then err on the side of caution...could be someones life...call 911
 
benzoman12345 said:
Call an ambulance if he doesn't respond when your punchin him full force !
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All this talk of slapping, punching, shouting at them, putting then into a cold bath/shower shit i hear year after year, is just that ! Shit, its useless, and wasting time, check breathing, and pulse, try get a response ( Without needing to linch your mate on the chin, then shouting in there ear, like what is that gonna do to ? reverse an od ? )

And OP - If no response, and has poor breathing / shallow breathing, long gaps between etc, And slow pulse, or no pulse rate, Then recovery position, and bite the bullet and Pick the phone up and get the emergancy services there.

I find this massively frustrating, Again people allways hanging on and on and, Im pretty sure if it was video'ed happening to YOU and you watched your mate / Smack aqaintenance whatever hanging around over you, And typing up threads on forums, and generaly wasting precious time, i bet you would be screaming at the tv screen saying hurry up, im fucking dying there FFS .

I can only hope this turned out ok as it wa a little while ago.
 
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wtf, seriously? this is like sitting in a burning house and emailing the fire brigade and asking if you should leave the house. if your friend is unresponsive as you say, call 911 ffs. if you are that worried just tell them you think your friend is having a heart attack, cops wont usually show up for that, if you say he is oding then yes expect the police to arrive to try and find something to arrest you for.

if he is slightly responsive:

try a sturnum rub/push take 2 fingers place them in the middle of his sturnum and press and rub, not super hard, its disorienting enough when done lightly and see if that brings him out, give him some sugar, oj and a candy bar or something to help metabolize the drugs,

tbh, i would still call ems to be sure, they can give him oxygen and narcan if need be.
 
Call 911... hide your drugs before they come.
But of course call 911 before you do that.

Well just looked at the time... hopefully OP did call 911.
 
*sigh* Really hope the OP called 911...
Doesn't matter if his friend has a tolerance, benzos and opiates have ended countless lives.
Not to mention who knows what was really in the bags, could have been fentanyl for all we know.
In that situation I would call 911 even if I risked my friend never talking to me again, going to jail, etc.
A life should always come first.
 
If you have naloxone, give it to him now. And not a fucking sub strip...I mean IM or IN naloxone solutions given out by HR organizations & syringe exchange programs for this purpose. If you don't have that, do a sternum rub. Use your knuckles to rub the sternum pretty much 2 inches above the breast to 2 inches below applying HARD pressure to try to get a response. It's supposed to hurt the person which in turn helps wake them up, and if they don't, chances are they need medical attention. Then again, it's been more than a couple hours, so that medical attention has been needed since minute 1, most likely.
 
xstayfadedx said:
Call 911... hide your drugs before they come.
But of course call 911 before you do that.

Well just looked at the time... hopefully OP did call 911.
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Just thought I'd also mention that it'd be worth looking up whether or not your state has a "Good Samaritan Law" regarding drugs / minors with alcohol protection from the authorities if they're calling paramedics for somebody who is ODing. In NYC we have a really great one that is pretty frequently stuck-to, and knowing the law on your end can be really helpful in a critical situation like this. Then again, if you live in NYC and frequently take opiates, opioids, or shoot heroin, you should absolutely have a naloxone kit. They're free. PM me if anybody wants details on overdose prevention & naloxone use / kit give outs in NYC.
 
Are you joking? Be a human being and call 911. You must really be some friend.

I overdosed and spent two days in a coma from my best friend not calling 911 in time after him watching me overdose.
 
The OP sent me the following PM and wanted me to share it.

Wolfmans_BrothEr said:
I called 911 immediately after posting that. And he is now alive and well. Im not nearly as bad a person as you may make me out to be. Despite being some dude on the Internet I think you should know that. Google didn't give me shit and I was just trying to find the symptoms of an actual od instead of calling the cops and potentially making things a lot worse if it was only a hard nod.
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