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Old Jul 13, 2017, 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by splitimage View Post
This makes me really appreciate, how close to dying I came during some of my relapses, especially when I mixed tranquilizers with booze. It scares me.
Reading some of the opioid OD stories in the news that have details made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. I thought I was always careful; never going more than double the dosage (usually only a dose and a half) and no more than 24 oz of 14% ABV convenience store rotgut "flavored malt beverage". I usually got the 8% ABV stuff if I had pain pills, but a couple of times I had done that one night and the high seemed pretty tame so I stepped it up the next time. Anyway, some people die at those levels. When I read about people in good physical shape dying when they had taken no more than I did, it shook me up pretty good.
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Thanks for this!
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