subdefy
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paradoxcycle said:Originally posted by subdefy
^ Why do they give the "brompton coctail" cocaine and morphine IIRC in hospitals then?
Because stimulants increase the analgesia you get from opiates; that's the thinking behind the Brompton cocktail used for terminal cancer patients (that are known to be in a lot of pain). But it isn't suitable for long term use, as when you get to enormous sized doses every day, you'd have people losing the plot just to get pain relief - morphine doses can get into the several hundreds of mgs per day in terminal cancer; doing that with a stimulant wouldn't be good.
The "classic" speedball combination is cocaine and heroin, which can potentially damage the heart because of the local anaesthetic effects of cocaine (and possibly heroin causing bradycardia through stimulation of the vagus nerve, but I think that's only a concern in OD) administered IV.
So basically used in moderation it's fine?