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There'd be a lot fewer minorities if that was the case.
your comment is probably just really shittily delivered wry commentary on the justice system, but... logically, this doesn't follow. drugs already kill the people you don't care about (in your case, minorities, although i suspect you really mean hispanics and blacks, not "minorities"). the statement was about excepting the ones you DO care about (white people, in your case). so there would just be more white people,…
My Dad once said, the world would be a better place if drugs and alcohol only killed people we didn't care about. Sadly the world is not like that.
There'd be a lot fewer minorities if that was the case.
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Legal opiates are now the biggest killer of addicts, according to at least one new study: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vicodin-oxycontin-drug-deaths-vos-l...
I think the fact the use and abuse of legal opiates are much more common (abuse is estimated an 10% of US population each year) than heroin (use is estimate at only 1.6% of US population even once during their entire lifetime) explains this. Heroin is made much more dangerous because it is illegal and therefore of unknown potency and purity.
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> Heroin, coke, and alcohol. Quickest way to overdose Is there something specific about this combination or do you simply mean generally with Class A drugs?
Coke and heroin, mainlined together, is infamous for killing many people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedball_(drug)#Notable_deaths...
This allows you to do more of the alcohol, even past where you would have normally stopped and this is OK up to a point, but if the coke wears off you get re-drunk far past you could have gone. It hits you like a brick wall. Shit goes bad fast.
Coke has a much shorter duration than either alcohol or heroin. Timing is key and can get complicated. Either 2 combinations of the three are already dangerous enough.Adding the other is too much.
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> Heroin, coke, and alcohol. Quickest way to overdose Is there something specific about this combination or do you simply mean generally with Class A drugs?
DEA classing is best to be ignored. The specific combination of booze and opiates has killed many due to how it depresses functions of the body like breathing. Really is a wicked one two punch. Again, best ignore DEA classing. I have yet to figure out rhyme or reason of it.
But your point stands that things get grossly mis-classified.
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Coke and heroin, mainlined together, is infamous for killing many people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedball_(drug)#Notable_deaths...
The situation cannot be analyzed w/o alcohol. Combining alcohol is too much. Coke gives you sort of a 'mental buff' where it gives you your mental control back but your body still has the same amount of alcohol in it. This allows you to do more of the alcohol, even past where you would have normally stopped and this is OK up to a point, but if the coke wears off you get re-drunk far past you could have gone. It hits…
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DEA classing is best to be ignored. The specific combination of booze and opiates has killed many due to how it depresses functions of the body like breathing. Really is a wicked one two punch. Again, best ignore DEA classing. I have yet to figure out rhyme or reason of it.
Class A, B, etc. are from the UK's drug laws, DEA uses Schedule 1, 2, etc. But your point stands that things get grossly mis-classified.
Heroin, coke, and alcohol. Quickest way to overdose, even if it is fun... RIP mate, we'll miss you. My worst OD was with that mixture as well, only I was lucky enough to have people with me and live in a country where calling the emergency services doesn't end with police at your door for overdoses. Narcan in the back of the ambulance brought me back. I got clean a month later, and am still clean 20 months later. Som…
"Drug abuse (opiates in particular) is more common in our field than we think" Even opiates aside, drug & alcohol abuse is ridiculously common for people that have a very /public/ and forced extraverted role in any field. The creative field is probably one of the most heavy cases for this sort of thing.
I got out when I realized that I was consuming far too much alcohol for the life I wanted to live.