Stop doing IV drugs

[Huff]

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/189250/20161217/deaths-from-synthetic-opioid-overdose-up-by-72-percent-cdc.htm

https://news.vice.com/article/theres-no-good-antidote-for-super-heroin-laced-with-elephant-tranquilizer

Someone literally OD'd in the hospital bathroom last week while visiting a friend who had OD'd

Shits bad. And we're running out of narcan

[Huff]

Like just do Things by mouth. Or smoke weed. Or coke

[Boogie]

Or coke

Bunch of teens OD'd in BC recently.  Their coke was laced with fentanyl.  Sooo.....

edit:  Not teens, I guess:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/delta-police-nine-overdose-warning-1.3744776

http://globalnews.ca/news/2982017/suspect-charged-after-5-people-overdose-on-cocaine-laced-with-fentanyl-at-ontario-party/

[Himu]

Legalize drugs.

[Huff]

That's why ya got to get the real stuff boogie. 

This carfentanil is being laced everywhere. Turns out taking opiates made for elephants is bad news

[Huff]

Are yal carrying more narcan on patrols in Canada?

[Atramental]

Noted. 

[Boogie]

That's why ya got to get the real stuff boogie. 

Not sure how you ensure quality control on an unregulated, black market product, but okay. 

Are yal carrying more narcan on patrols in Canada?

Yup.  Got myself a pack issued a couple months ago.

[Madrun Badrun]

It might be easier if you work at a hospital. 

[Huff]

Most hospitals do stock cocaine for some nasal procedures...

[bluemax]

There was a pretty good piece of journalism from some WV paper about how the drug companies are funneling opioids into WV at a rather frightening rate. There were enough opioids sold there last year for something like 422 pills PER PERSON in the entire state.

[benjipwns]

There was a pretty good piece of journalism from some WV paper about how the drug companies are funneling opioids into WV at a rather frightening rate. There were enough opioids sold there last year for something like 422 pills PER PERSON in the entire state.

So what are you supposed to take during the next week?

[MMaRsu]

Just do weed

[Let's Cyber]

Ohio attorney general Mike DeWine echoed Ingram's concerns last week, and warned that even when overdose victims are given naloxone and brought to the hospital, they still risk dying of an overdose after they're discharged.

"So what we are now seeing happen is that people are brought back to life, taken to a hospital, are advised to stick around, they feel ok so they walk out the door and two hours later, they are dead because it didn't stay in their system long enough," he said.

[Brehvolution]

How high do you need to be?

[Purrp Skirrp]

Two guys from my HS class died, both athletes at one point but they started fucking with heroin (the pattern being opioids -> heroin). One of my sister's exes killed himself, again he had become a heroin addict among other things.

One of my best friends got into opioids, tried to get me into them but no thanks bro I'll just smoke weed like we used to. His gf of 7 years dumped him and he entered rehab. She decided to blame the breakup on him being "physically abusive" rather than expose his drug addiction, but that just made their entire friend group side with her and drop him too. Miss that dude.

Pretty sad but unsurprising it took suburban cacs getting hooked on this shit for it to become something worth addressing.

[Huff]

Eyeroll

Or every year it continues to get worse

And what's out there is more dangerous with the designer drugs

[seagrams hotsauce]

I got Dilaudid this summer in the ER, and christ almighty was it a ride. A really fun high for about 45 minutes, then a gradual onset of nausea, followed by an hour and a half of violent dry heaves, which wasn't much fun with a broken jaw

[Purrp Skirrp]

Eyeroll

Or every year it continues to get worse

And what's out there is more dangerous with the designer drugs

All true, and you know more about this than I.

My bad. Thinking about my friend got me all melodramatic and probably projecting with those accusations--b/c let's be real I never gave opioid or heroin abuse much thought until it started affecting my small town bubble.

I got Dilaudid this summer in the ER, and christ almighty was it a ride. A really fun high for about 45 minutes, then a gradual onset of nausea, followed by an hour and a half of violent dry heaves, which wasn't much fun with a broken jaw

Dilaudid was the best feeling ever while waiting for my appendectomy, esp when the morphine wasn't doing shit. Bummed me out when I was all hopped up on percocet and my mom was saying, "It's like the old Jay Owen is back!"

[studyguy]

That NPR story about some nurse stuck on heroin knowing full well half the town had AIDS and she was sharing was like 

Get your shit straight white people, you fed this shit to the inner cities, you'd think you'd know by now opioid addiction leading to heroin was a bad deal.

Just stop trying to be artistic with vices and drink beer like a real motherfucker.

Our grandparents didn't have to deal with this shit. They just died a slow, painful death of liver failure or heart attacks from too much fat at an old age like real Americans.
 

[Huff]

On a funnier note, had a teen in the ED yesterday anxious and paranoid because she smoked weed for the first time 

Kids these days

[Brehvolution]

I was listening to a podcast and this guy was talking about his experiences with DMT. It sounds fascinating, but I'll never do it.

[chronovore]

It never made any sense to me how anyone could get into drugs that required injection. The minute I had to make a hole in myself to take a drug, I'd be outta there. I guess someone else helps the new user by injecting them the first time? I have a hard time letting licensed nurses put holes in me.

[Tasty]

I have a hard time letting licensed nurses put holes in me.

[chronovore]

I have a hard time letting licensed nurses put holes in me.

[Vertigo]

Fentanyl has me shook. Living in downtown Vancouver you see the warning posters everywhere. Was at an apartment party on Friday in Yaletown and the marching powder inevitably came out, had to politely decline.

 

[Dickie Dee]

Like just do Things by mouth. Or smoke weed. Or coke

WOOOOOO *butt-chugs*

[Dickie Dee]

My sister's boyfriend's father was just put on some Dilaudid and it fucked him up something bad. Constant semi-consciousness and dementia-like symptoms. He chose to go off of it (not sure what replaced it ) and take some more pain rather than have it scramble his brains.

[tiesto]

My ex's brother became an H addict after needing painkillers from a workplace injury. Caused him to lose a cushy union job and his girlfriend and daughter. He was in and out of rehab, and fell for another girl he met in rehab. Got kicked out of his house, would constantly break back in and hock his dad's iPad and mom's jewelry to the pawn shop for drug money. I'm expecting to read about him in the paper any day now, though I'm hoping for his sake he manages to kick the habit and stay clean. Even if I've cut off all contact with his sister after our breakup.

It's surreal seeing so many kids I went to HS with talking about how many days sober they've been. I grew up in Smithtown, which is a wealthy 90+% white town, but also one of the places most devastated by heroin. Suffolk County leads NY in ODs from the drug. Fuck this shit.

Requiem For A Dream and season 2 of Breaking Bad should be required viewing for anyone even remotely considering this.

[seagrams hotsauce]

Might be a giant jerkoff for saying this, but another great reason for not doing H? You'll never have to worry about becoming that guy who bases his whole identity around not doing drugs anymore. I applaud anyone who beats their addiction, but 'check it out, I did bad drugs a lot' stories are usually as boring as 'check it out, I had a weird dream last night' stories

[studyguy]

Requiem For A Dream and season 2 of Breaking Bad should be required viewing for anyone even remotely considering this.

I dunno, dude. I know some weirdos who started trying these drugs because of Breaking Bad and Requiem For A Dream. It's like they never finish them, instead watch the get high scenes and think "I really want to do that".

Yeah but how many people decided to try ass to ass post Requiem for a Dream?

[Steve Contra]

no u stop