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Old Nov 19, 2007, 12:13 PM
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I just want to say to be really really really careful with the alcohol and energy drinks. There have been reported deaths from people mixing the downer with the extreme upper. Its the same chemical composition of mixing alcohol with cocaine. My friend died when he was 25 from drinking one night, waking up hungover, doing one line of coke to wake up. The combination was lethal and stopped his heart. The docs said you never know when the combo will be lethal, and it was leftover alcohol from the night before. They said if he had done it in the ER they wouldn't have been able to save him.

Alcohol and energy drinks can have the same effect. Its a huge stress on the heart to mix a downer with an upper like that. I used to be a cocktail server back in my drinking days, and I begged my boss to let me refuse to serve red bull and vodka. He wouldn't let me because it was a money maker. I was so afraid that it would kill someone.

Alcoholism is deadly. It will kill us if we let it. All of us that are here to talk about it are miracles that we're alive.
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