So this memory just zapped into my brain while I was reading about cocaine. I have only had a couple of experiences with it. In NZ it costs an arm and a leg(400$ a gram) so its more of extremely wealthy/very special occasion kind of drug.
I was invited to an after party by some customers at a club I worked at. They were very wealthy and shared their drugs with me which was MDMA and coke. I can't say for certain how much I did over the course of 2-3 hours I hung out with them, but enough to get extremely high. 3 or 4 quite large lines of coke that I struggled to get up my nose(I've never done lines that big) and maybe 150mg of MDMA if I had to guess.
Anyway I leave the party as I have a bed and girlfriend to get to, and start driving home. Now, the group that I was hanging out with - especially the girls, were very concerned I was going to drive. Equally I know that these girls wanted to fuck me so I took it with a grain of salt because they didn't want me to leave regardless. Looking back they were right and I shouldn't have been driving, but hey - live and learn... this was in my early 20's when I was a lot more reckless.
Like I said, I'm extremely high - driving is very fun and I'm speeding. The streets are empty, its 6am on a sunday morning. I wasn't familiar with these exact roads and before you know it I hit a speed bump that you should NOT hit any faster than 10-15mph/20-25kmh. It was a very steep and hard speed bump. Well I was going about 80-100kmh when I hit it and basically got air. It really took me by surprise as I didn't realise I was hitting a speed bump until it was under my wheels. If anyone saw this it would have looked fucking insane.
Well I manage not to crash the car and came to a stop. I was smoking a cigarette like a madman - had been since I started doing the coke, just chain smoking. There is a large amount of 'steam' coming from under the bonnet of my car and I pop it and get out to have a look - ciggy still in mouth. Now, the front end had really smashed hard down into the ground, pretty sure I bottomed out the suspension. By the way this is my girlfriends car! Haha fuck my life.
I couldn't see any damage to the radiator or hoses and couldn't make sense of the steam so I just hopped back in the car and started calmly driving home, keeping a keen on on the temperature gauge to make sure its not overheating.
Within a few minutes I start to feel quite fucked up. And it keeps hitting me harder. Hot flashes, cold sweats, blurry vision. I have to pull over and I do. As soon as the car stopped I just start vommiting profusely. My breathing was heavy and hard. I legit thought I was about to die.
It really reminded me of a mild opiate overdose but my vision was really bad on top. I couldn't really shake it and just kept driving home, got there and fell asleep. So I didn't think too much of this event, figured maybe the coke or mdma just hit me really hard - a chunk got dislodged in my brain or something, I dunno. I then proceed to share this story with my friend who happens to work on cars who then explains to me that the AC gas is what leaked out(explains why I didn't have AC anymore!) and that when AC gas hits a flame(like getting pulled over the ember of a cigarette when you take a drag) it turns into phosgene gas which.. is highly toxic, and causes all of these symptoms.
Heres a link about phosgene.
emergency.cdc.gov
I always found this to be such a strange turn of events and that its such a fucked up way to give yourself serious poisoning. Be careful where you smoke, people!
I was invited to an after party by some customers at a club I worked at. They were very wealthy and shared their drugs with me which was MDMA and coke. I can't say for certain how much I did over the course of 2-3 hours I hung out with them, but enough to get extremely high. 3 or 4 quite large lines of coke that I struggled to get up my nose(I've never done lines that big) and maybe 150mg of MDMA if I had to guess.
Anyway I leave the party as I have a bed and girlfriend to get to, and start driving home. Now, the group that I was hanging out with - especially the girls, were very concerned I was going to drive. Equally I know that these girls wanted to fuck me so I took it with a grain of salt because they didn't want me to leave regardless. Looking back they were right and I shouldn't have been driving, but hey - live and learn... this was in my early 20's when I was a lot more reckless.
Like I said, I'm extremely high - driving is very fun and I'm speeding. The streets are empty, its 6am on a sunday morning. I wasn't familiar with these exact roads and before you know it I hit a speed bump that you should NOT hit any faster than 10-15mph/20-25kmh. It was a very steep and hard speed bump. Well I was going about 80-100kmh when I hit it and basically got air. It really took me by surprise as I didn't realise I was hitting a speed bump until it was under my wheels. If anyone saw this it would have looked fucking insane.
Well I manage not to crash the car and came to a stop. I was smoking a cigarette like a madman - had been since I started doing the coke, just chain smoking. There is a large amount of 'steam' coming from under the bonnet of my car and I pop it and get out to have a look - ciggy still in mouth. Now, the front end had really smashed hard down into the ground, pretty sure I bottomed out the suspension. By the way this is my girlfriends car! Haha fuck my life.
I couldn't see any damage to the radiator or hoses and couldn't make sense of the steam so I just hopped back in the car and started calmly driving home, keeping a keen on on the temperature gauge to make sure its not overheating.
Within a few minutes I start to feel quite fucked up. And it keeps hitting me harder. Hot flashes, cold sweats, blurry vision. I have to pull over and I do. As soon as the car stopped I just start vommiting profusely. My breathing was heavy and hard. I legit thought I was about to die.
It really reminded me of a mild opiate overdose but my vision was really bad on top. I couldn't really shake it and just kept driving home, got there and fell asleep. So I didn't think too much of this event, figured maybe the coke or mdma just hit me really hard - a chunk got dislodged in my brain or something, I dunno. I then proceed to share this story with my friend who happens to work on cars who then explains to me that the AC gas is what leaked out(explains why I didn't have AC anymore!) and that when AC gas hits a flame(like getting pulled over the ember of a cigarette when you take a drag) it turns into phosgene gas which.. is highly toxic, and causes all of these symptoms.
Heres a link about phosgene.
CDC | Facts About Phosgene
Information on terrorism and public health. Provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
emergency.cdc.gov
I always found this to be such a strange turn of events and that its such a fucked up way to give yourself serious poisoning. Be careful where you smoke, people!
