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COLUMN: Exploring Dangers of Mixing Drugs, Alcohol

COLUMN: Exploring dangers of mixing drugs, alcohol
Heroin addicts may turn to alcohol when heroin is unavailable, usually because it is both illegal and expensive. The alcohol may help to temporarily relieve the withdrawal symptoms heroin users may experience. Users of both substances tend to build up …
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How a Mix of Heroin and Alcohol Killed Cory Monteith
The symptoms of heroin overdose are pretty straightforward. (See Pulp Fiction and dear Uma once again). Assuming only alcohol and heroin were present, Monteith likely died from the direct respiratory-suppression effects of heroin—in plain English, he …
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What is heroin withdrawal like? – Greg and Mike share what heroin withdrawal was like for them. Statistics courtesy of: http://www.everydayhealth.com/addiction/understanding-addiction-relapse…