• corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]M
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      3 years ago

      Opiate WDs are highly survivable and very rarely fatal.

      EDIT - I see what youre saying, but i think most people will just go without rather than cut their drugs or look for other shit.

      • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I don't know, I've never been addicted to heroin but I've smoked some pretty gross shit when I was out of weed

      • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Just do me a favor and understand that there are people who are very close to this thing and explaining to them that ODs aren't dangerous might be seen as an offense.

        I've revived purple friends who were gagging on their own vomit during involuntary near death breathing and, as said in the other post, I also know ones that have died because no one was around to revive them.

        • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]M
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          3 years ago

          ODs can most definitely be fatal, won't argue that for a second. That said, I was specifically referencing withdrawls.

          • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            Oh sorry barely awake and misread.

            Fentanyl gets cut into regular heroin, it's not sold as fentanyl. So what'll happen is the supply is going to get even more tainted with it.

            Users aren't going to specifically seek fentanyl, but will end up with it anyways and then that's how the OD's occur

            • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]M
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              3 years ago

              No worries! And yeah, I feel you. Im a former/recovering opiate addict myself, so I know how things go. I was waking up when I first made that post. I guess my point is, if shit is just hard to find, I hope people will be ok. With regards to fentanyl, if you can't get anything to cut it with, then...I dunno. Like, I just hope people will be ok is all.

              • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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                3 years ago

                Man my cousin OD'd and died like hours after we talked about this. Just got the news and it sucks.

                Shits fucked. Stay off the shit, things are fucked.

                Solidarity to you.

      • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        I've had multiple friends hooked on the shit and seen first hand that fentanyl is not a deterrent to getting a fix.

        Opiate ODs are survivable if Narcan is administered quickly lol, but otherwise no. A very close friend of mine died last year because no one was around to administer that dose.

        Fentanyl knocks them directly into hypoxia moments after shooting it up. There's no time to get assistance unless there's someone nearby who is not using or has not used yet.