i used to drink, shoot morphine, pop DXM and smoke crack all in one night but most people wouldn't live though that idk why i can i have tried to kill myself with drugs and alcohol but failed at extremely high doses so it may be fine for your friend to drink and take oxycontin
It may be fine for him to do that or he may die from doing that. Better safe than dead...
I mix alcohol and heroin all the time. It helps me get a lot higher and get more out of the dope. Its not for rookies, but if your tolerant and experienced with both alcohol and opiates they can work great together for getting messed up.
Most heroin overdoses are the result of mixing heroin with another CNS depressant such as alcohol or benzodiazepines. Personally I don't mix opiates with anything else as I am content with the high from opiates alone, and find alcohol to dirty the high.
If you are impaired by alcohol it is a lot easier to miscalculate your dose of heroin or just use poor judgement and take too much for the amount of alcohol that is already in your system. Even if you are experienced it still isn't a combination that should be entertained. All the experience in the world won't mean a thing if you are too drunk to realize what you are doing, and if you are drunk you won't know that you are too drunk to the dose of heroin that may put you over the edge.
From a harm reduction standpoint this combination should be avoided. It's one thing to properly dose heroin, but it's another thing to take the proper amount while taking into account your alcohol intake, and if it's a batch of heroin that you are unfamiliar with the risk is even greater.
So i was just talking to a coworker and we were talking about our party plans for the time off we get, and we ended up talking about chronic pain patients (we both are). This took our convo to booze and pills. "He said something like "its just oxycontin". Meaning its ok to mix alcohol and pills.... i tried to reason with him but these nothern guys are fucked apprently(hes from some northern ontario hell hole originally and booze and pills is the norm)
My question is are most people that ignorant of the dangers of combining these substances? are people that fucking stupid? or is our governments and the lack of info out there to blame?
This is world is so stupid it makes me sick.
Some people downplay oxycodone because they don't want to look as bad as "hard drug" users, and others do it because they truly are uneducated on drugs. Oxycodone is a potent opioid that accounts for a lot of overdoses, and mixing it with alcohol greatly increases the chances of these overdoses occurring.
- Are people that ignorant of the dangers of combining these substances? Sure, otherwise there wouldn't be as many overdoses from the combination of these substances as there are.
- Are people really that stupid? I guess.
- Is the government/lack of info to blame? They can't really advertise how dangerous oxycodone is on regular television all the time. There are shows and specials on it which say how dangerous of a drug it is. The government made drug companies reformulate the drug into an abuse resistant formula so they have taken some steps to try to limit the amount of overdose deaths from it. For those that are prescribed the drug there are plenty of warnings inside the prescription pamphlet.
Drug education focuses more on prescription pills than it did before, and parents are being told to lock their medicine cabinets and/or throw away all old prescriptions. They have to educate just enough so that people know that the drug is dangerous, but not too much as to make people curious about the drug and want to try it.
I don't know what else to tell you. This definitely isn't an
Other Drugs topic so I will try it in
Drug Culture, but can't guarantee that it will stay open since I don't know if the discussion will go anywhere.
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