Anyone ever seriously overdose and still here?

[moviebuff927]

Alright, I'll be the first to admit it. I have overdosed twice on morphine and I am still here to talk about it. I don't blame the drug, I was just irresponsible. What had happened was I took too many Xanax and gotten to the point where I don't remember anything. But Xanax and morphine together can be especially deadly. But if you've ever done Xanax or Valium, you know what I am talking about. I got to the point where I had too many but I thought I needed more. I took a seemingly strong dose of morphine, but nothing that would have killed me had I not been on Xanax as well. I woke up in the emergency room with a tube down my mouth and I thought I had been in another car accident. I didn't touch any pills for a long time. Finally I came to conclusion that I just cannot handle benzos like I can handle opiates. I never lose consciousness with opiates, let alone get memory loss. But with benzos it seems like every time I take them I blackout.

I know I'm lucky (I was breathing 4 times a minute when the ambulance arrived) and had it not been for someone finding me, I would have been dead. Also, the blood had pooled on my back because I had been lying there so long.

And then 5 months later I OD'd again. That was some years ago, and I just stick to opiates now and certainly don't combine a sedative with a potent opiate.

I was just wanting to know if anyone else has been as stupid as I was and learned an important lesson the hard way. And believe me, I learned my lesson. But as they say, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. :)

Oh yeah, I know I'm stating the obvious, but anyone who is thinking about taking a benzo like Xanax or Valium with any opiate should know that if you're the addictive type and you blackout a lot from benzos alone, BE CAREFUL! It's a lot easier than you think to punch your last ticket and go straight to pushing up daisies...

-moviebuff

[devilsdrug]

yep u wanna die mix benzo opio and alcol see ya

[moviebuff927]

It's a hell of a lot easier than you think. Like I said, I just stick to opiates. If you lay opiates, cocaine, marijuana, sedatives, alcohol, and hallucinogens on a table, I'll always take the opiates first. Marijuana second. Cocaine third. Sedatives fourth. Hallucinogens fifth and alcohol by far LAST. But that's me :)

-moviebuff

[repeek]

Three of us went to a shooting gallery in Juarez Mexico to fix, at that time (1971 and I am about fifteen years old) a five dollar balloon would take care of me. But the dope handler ran out of nickels and dimes, so we had to buy a half gram or wait till some more dope came. Needless to say waiting was out of the question, we just needed to find one other person to chip in to buy a half. We find another American, score the half and I was picked to split the dope four ways. Well; I got the biggest hit (imagine that), fixed and left the gallery.

The next thing I know I am laying in a puddle of water, my shirt is ripped down the middle and a Mexican is standing over me with a cattle prod with a blue spark coming out of the end of it and hitting me in the chest. My body is jerking uncontrollably but I can’t really feel much, soon after I gain consciousness I am helped up and slapped around by a bunch of people I don’t know and prodded again and again. After a while a couple of guys walk with me to the bridge and leave it up to me to make it home. I was still nodding from that hit for twenty hours.

If whoever found me had not dragged be back to the gallery, I have no doubt I would not be here today.

That was my first OD, but not my last.

[PRIZEFIGHTERINFERNO]

I have never had a serious Overdose. I would like to briefly tell of some of my good friends though, sorry if its off topic, i never bring this up. One of my buddies recently OD'd and the dumb ass people that were with him almost let him die fortunately his brother walked in and saved him by bringing him to the hospital at 100mph. My other buddy passed out with his head hung back on the couch started choking on his own vomit and died (i dont think he overdosed just got way too high and started puking in a weird position), he didnt know his girlfriend had a baby that is now really healthy and beautifull. And my other buddy was found by his family in bed in the morning with a needle in his arm dead, it was way too late to save him. My other friend got too hi and was driving his car after a party and crashed, and died.
R.I.P-D.B., robe, M.W.

[Dope-a-meen-feen]

SWIM OD'd on methadone last year. SWIM didn't go to the ER either... they couldn't let their parents or boyfriend find out what she was up to. SWIM took over 220mg's of methadone over a period of 7 hours. 110mg's to start SWIM off, then every so often take a bit more. It got to the point to where SWIM couldn't even hold their head up & eyes open to drive home from spending the evening with her boyfriend. SWIM almost died that night in a car accident because SWIM passed out & when SWIM came to, they were heading towards a rock cliff going about 70 mph. Today, SWIM doesn't take as much methadone as they used to - although sometimes, SWIM gets a lil' carried away with it when it comes around...

[laynesfriend]

Indeed I have had many overdoses as have many of my friends. I've saved countless people many times, unfortunately you can't be there all the time. My first overdose was in Hollywood at age 17. I did my normal dose of heroin but had been drinking and the dope was pure. I was with some people that weren't experienced and they paniced. they took me to the hospitol but were afraid of getting in trouble so they left me on the black automatic door opener mat. I remember being mad at the door for opening and closing and taking me out of my nod. I couldn't move or talk and was unconcious most of the time but that door kept bringing me back. I hated that door. Finally someone found me before it was too late. Funny, that door probably saved my life. Years later I would save many others, Layne Staley for one and Kurt Cobain once too. when I found Lanyne in my bathroom once his lips and fingernails were black already, I was sure it was too late but i couldn't accept it. I put ice down his pants and under his arm pits, turned the shower on cold and pointed it out the shower onto his lifeless body and gave him cpr. I finally got a pulse but he wouldn't breathe on his own. I had some cocaine so while I continued cpr my friend mixed up a shot and I hit his neck. The coke was enough to keep his heart going. But for the next several hours I had to keep him breathing. I never called the ambulance because he had just cancelled a tour with Metalica for "health reasons" the press was already tearing him apart and I didn't want to make it worse. I don't know what I'd done if he had died. Madseason would have never happened nor would he have done unplugged or Lettermen. Unfortunately the drug finally won. RIP Layne.

[johnny27]

Three of us went to a shooting gallery in Juarez Mexico to fix, at that time (1971 and I am about fifteen years old) a five dollar balloon would take care of me. But the dope handler ran out of nickels and dimes, so we had to buy a half gram or wait till some more dope came. Needless to say waiting was out of the question, we just needed to find one other person to chip in to buy a half. We find another American, score the half and I was picked to split the dope four ways. Well; I got the biggest hit (imagine that), fixed and left the gallery.

The next thing I know I am laying in a puddle of water, my shirt is ripped down the middle and a Mexican is standing over me with a cattle prod with a blue spark coming out of the end of it and hitting me in the chest. My body is jerking uncontrollably but I can’t really feel much, soon after I gain consciousness I am helped up and slapped around by a bunch of people I don’t know and prodded again and again. After a while a couple of guys walk with me to the bridge and leave it up to me to make it home. I was still nodding from that hit for twenty hours.

If whoever found me had not dragged be back to the gallery, I have no doubt I would not be here today.

That was my first OD, but not my last.

Good story my friend, and good espace too. I've heard this mentioned a few times on this board, but what excatly is a "shooting Gallery"? I know obviously its somwhere to go and fix up with H, but is this a legal place? Goverement run, soemthing like a harm reduction building? Or most of all i presume its illegal but would like to here the details, thanks

[kdreimiller]

yeah shootig gallery is a term of art.....

totally illegal in the us. usually its just an abadoned house where junkies go to fix after tehy score. it used to be a place where you could go, rent works for a buck or something, fix yourself and be on your way. with AIDS / Hep C and stuff now, those days of renting works are loooooooong gone.

[PRIZEFIGHTERINFERNO]

i noticed a few people here said they saved there friends lives...it really is a commendable thing. Sometimes it takes someone to know what addiction and overdose really is and is like to help someone, sometimes and usually the hospital is the way to go, but sometimes a person who knows about the addiction first hand can prevent alot of death. peace

[jacky]

repeek, that is one amazing overdose story!!


I have only had the minor overdoses, where you quit breathing for a little, and people have to drag you around to wake you up, nothing serious, never a visit to the hospital. I think the reason I didnt end up in the hospital is cause of the freinds that I did have, some of them knew what the hell they were doing, at least as far as junkie can. I did use alone alot, and do speedballs behind locked doors though...so perhaps most of the reason I never had a serious overdose is that I would never shoot a whole peice of dope till I had sampled it. I would usually take a very small nib, and see if I could even feel that.

I did have to run my freind in to the emergency room once....I think I noticed him overdose and got him to the hospital within 4 minutes.

I have around 10 freinds that have died from opiate related overdoses.

most of them died while relapsing.

a long time ago, when I was dealing heroin , this kid 19-20 year old, came and bought dope from me with this guy that came over with a freind of mine, so I never had met him before. I said "look, this is strong dope, dont do too much"....he proceeded to shoot up behind closed doors in my bathroom. The sound of a body dropping and I was in that bathroom dragging him out into the front yard, where he got a soak down for 5 minutes till he was self mobile. I was lucky no one noticed what was going on, and damn lucky we got him up and out of there. He had a heroin hangover the next day, and couldnt stop from puking when trying to get more dope in him to get well....it was funny then.

everytime I would use H and klonipin I would end up burning big ass holes in my clothes....I am lucky that I didnt burn myself up. thinking about that reminds me of a freind of mines brother, he nodded out on heroin and benzos, and was smoking....he ended up inhaling most of his cd collection and stereo that ended up going up in flames cause he was smoking tobacco on dope while in bed. He did recover somewhat, but for weeks he had to be kept in a benzo and downer comatose state. the drs would bring him out of the coma every week to observe some reactions, and then put him into the comatose state again till he was ready for recovery.

[repeek]

Good story my friend, and good espace too. I've heard this mentioned a few times on this board, but what excatly is a "shooting Gallery"? I know obviously its somwhere to go and fix up with H, but is this a legal place? Goverement run, soemthing like a harm reduction building? Or most of all i presume its illegal but would like to here the details, thanks


In Juarez, the dope dealers would rent an apartment in a high traffic area (usually in the downtown area) set up a card table and put water, rigs, cotton, and spoons etc. He would sit in nice chair, by one of the doors, with two bank bags (one for the dope and one for the money) and sell dope all day. The gallery would move every month, sometimes every week, depending on how hot things were at the time. All the cab drivers know where the new locations are and will take you there if you know how to ask.

Shooting galleries in the U.S. are a different thing, like kdreimiller said.

[superman]

IMO everybody should have first aid level B training.

cost me $120, took only 8 hours. it includes all the basic first aid that one could use for any kind of injury, as well as CPR.

not having it might cost someone thier life one day!

[Babydollangel]

WOW at these od stories ! I am on 6mg daily of Xanax and am kinda past the pass out after taking stage but the memory loss is always there...sometimes I say things and just minutes later forget the entire conversation !! Im not a benzo fan but need it medically for my anxiety. These od stories just made me stop and think a little...Im for sure an opiate fan but gotta have my benzo too (I do not and would not ever use a benzo recreationally..i dont really see how it is recreational but anyways to each his own i guess) so this just kinda reminded me how serious it is to know what you are doing at all times.
Thanks for posting these stories.

[johnny27]

WOW at these od stories ! I am on 6mg daily of Xanax and am kinda past the pass out after taking stage but the memory loss is always there...sometimes I say things and just minutes later forget the entire conversation !! Im not a benzo fan but need it medically for my anxiety. These od stories just made me stop and think a little...Im for sure an opiate fan but gotta have my benzo too (I do not and would not ever use a benzo recreationally..i dont really see how it is recreational but anyways to each his own i guess) so this just kinda reminded me how serious it is to know what you are doing at all times.
Thanks for posting these stories.

Babydoll i totally agree. I think benzo's are no fun to abuse at all. There's no real euphoria, nor much of a even mild sense of well being. Just drowsy but not in a nice type of cozy opiate way.

Although i found that the only use i have for them is to help me get a nod going on PT. For along time i could'nt get the nod back, but now i can get it mixed with benzo's.
I'm using a very weak benzo too, i don't know if its available in the US, its called chlordiazpoxide, it was the first ever benzo made, and its usually used for treating alcholics.
The only reason i have it is because i stole 60 of them from my uncle who is an alcoholic. I'm not proud of stealing either, but my addiction makes me do some things i would never do sober cross my concience. I'm always looking for ways or meds to increase my highs, and this benzo does help abit

[Babydollangel]

Babydoll i totally agree. I think benzo's are no fun to abuse at all. There's no real euphoria, nor much of a even mild sense of well being. Just drowsy but not in a nice type of cozy opiate way.

Although i found that the only use i have for them is to help me get a nod going on PT. For along time i could'nt get the nod back, but now i can get it mixed with benzo's.
I'm using a very weak benzo too, i don't know if its available in the US, its called chlordiazpoxide, it was the first ever benzo made, and its usually used for treating alcholics.
The only reason i have it is because i stole 60 of them from my uncle who is an alcoholic. I'm not proud of stealing either, but my addiction makes me do some things i would never do sober cross my concience. I'm always looking for ways or meds to increase my highs, and this benzo does help abit

I know people who swear to find euphoria with benzos...lucky them I guess cuz its not happened to me not even once !
As far as way to increase highs, I too try different things...some may seem ridiculous...i swear by breaking/crushing pills makes them work faster but I know someone who says it makes no dif. and i do get lots of ideas off here of potentiation methods...some ive tried...some too scared to try LOL..but I classify highs in different ways...personally Im the type of person that just likes euphoria without the sedation that makes ya go look for the bed. Most everything I have ever tried to potentiate had the effect of sleepiness (which is not what Im looking for...i wanna get in a good mood and boogie woogie or do house work...lol)

ops sorry to get off topic here just wanted to comment on what you said johnny !

BDA :D

[shaunclo]

I think a good 30-40 mg dose of valium definitely gives me euphoria. Not in the opiate euphoria type way, but a good nice calm mild cozy euphoria. I guess I am one of the lucky ones, as you said.

[candy]

Indeed I have had many overdoses as have many of my friends. I've saved countless people many times, unfortunately you can't be there all the time. My first overdose was in Hollywood at age 17. I did my normal dose of heroin but had been drinking and the dope was pure. I was with some people that weren't experienced and they paniced. they took me to the hospitol but were afraid of getting in trouble so they left me on the black automatic door opener mat. I remember being mad at the door for opening and closing and taking me out of my nod. I couldn't move or talk and was unconcious most of the time but that door kept bringing me back. I hated that door. Finally someone found me before it was too late. Funny, that door probably saved my life. Years later I would save many others, Layne Staley for one and Kurt Cobain once too. when I found Lanyne in my bathroom once his lips and fingernails were black already, I was sure it was too late but i couldn't accept it. I put ice down his pants and under his arm pits, turned the shower on cold and pointed it out the shower onto his lifeless body and gave him cpr. I finally got a pulse but he wouldn't breathe on his own. I had some cocaine so while I continued cpr my friend mixed up a shot and I hit his neck. The coke was enough to keep his heart going. But for the next several hours I had to keep him breathing. I never called the ambulance because he had just cancelled a tour with Metalica for "health reasons" the press was already tearing him apart and I didn't want to make it worse. I don't know what I'd done if he had died. Madseason would have never happened nor would he have done unplugged or Lettermen. Unfortunately the drug finally won. RIP Layne.

Glad to hear that this time you were able to save your friend, but I would just like to add that this is just not the best idea and anyone who is unconscious and in respiratory distress should be taken to the ER or call 911.
Most overdoses happen as a result of a combination of two or more respiratory depressants like Heroin and Valium. It is just a bad idea when you mix an opiate with a benzo or an opiate with alcohol. You increase your risk of overdose.

I have cut it pretty close a few times myself and because I worked in a hospital for many years was able to keep a bit of Narcan around for those close calls. Early on in my using, I gave myself Narcan a few times when I thought I might have done just a bit too much. At that same time I was diverting Morphine and Demerol from the same place I took the Narcan and was using some pretty heavy doses of Morphine, especially for someone with no tolerance. Oh, those were the days!

[halfalien_s4]

i had one swerious accidental OD a couple yrs back. i was literally in so much pain that day nothing seemed to work so i kept taking and combining stuff. ultimetly, i took MS contin, norco, and a large quantity of soma (thats what got me) and was at ci ci's pizza when i passed out. i had one of my skull-splitting migraines that wouldnt break and was throwing up so i kept taking this stuff in large quantities trying to break it....i remember i took 4 more soma and nothing worked....until 3 hrs later it all kicked in at the same time which was odd. the soma was the last straw so to speak (my neck was so stiff at the time so i ttook them), and i have an unusually high tolarence but since it all kicked in 3 hrs later at once it made me OD. i woke up partially concious in the ambulance, and i remember them asking me al lthese questions and they kept giving me narcan but it didnt work since the soma was the culprit. i was in the trauma room when i woke up and they wanted to admit me but i basically cussed out the doctor there cuz he was being a dick, and explained to the nurse i didnt do it on purpose i was just in so much pain at the time, and then signed myself out and went home. it was stupid on my part to take all of that when what i should have done is got my bf at the time to just take me strait to the ER when the migrain first started and got bad, and got a shot or IV of dilaudid like i usually do when one wont break (i had had that migraine for 4 days already and was ready to pull my hair out....) so i do take responsibility for that whole incident and it will neve happen again i know i learned that there is better ways of getting rid of pain then taking too many meds....plus the meds i got now are like the difference between day and night compared to what i was taking then....my pain level back then was a lot worse than now...

[antigonemuse]

NOT SURE IF THIS WAS AN OVERDOSE... i have denied it in the past... but after doing untold amounts of hydromorph(IV), and OC (iv, tooting)... i woke up in my shower, with the water running on me and a long nasty scratch up my back from the faucet... from what i could put together, i was in there passed out for about 5 - 6 hours...

i rememberr going in the shower at about 2 - 3 am... and was 8 am when i got out... i still had a line waiting for me on the counter... AND YES, I DID IT...

[clinton]

does anyone have any overdose stories in regards to poppy tea? thanks.

[orangejuice]

At the beginning of my using days when i was a foolish fool around 15 i think, back when 2 or 3 hydro 10's did the job and 10 mg of done would have me nodding for 18 hours. I woke up for school one day and seen this bottle of pills someone had that was living with us at the time, i took 2 of these small pills that i thought couldnt of been strong but they turned out to be OC 40's, i went to school and never told a person cuz i was scared... i just recently came to talk about it a while back... anyways the rest of the story is in a recent post of mine i think in one called " the difference between H and the done" if anyones interested....

[dorje]

When I was in business in New York I would cop a half load of smack and supply some friends. My women would steal dope from me when I would turn to get some matches. Then she would feel guiilty and put three bags in the spoon. I bounced around the floor one night after her gift. Good dooji... a half a bag would usually do me.

[HappinessIsaWarmGun]

I've had a couple overdoses with heroin. Once I was even warned by dealer that it was not the usual quality, but much, much better, and to be careful to only do a small bit. Well, I did only do a tiny bit, but nonetheless, I was out like a light. Luckily there were other people around.

As the safer injection site in Vancouver is proving, being in a situation where you are not shooting up alone saves lives. In the past 18 months, 336 people have gone under at the SIS, but all have been brought back. If they had been alone in their rooms, how many would be here today?

I am not a pill mixer. Not difficult because I've never much liked benzos. Nor am I a drinker. So I don't face the problem of doing opiods combined with other respiratory depressors.

Sure I like my heroin. But, I'm quite satisfied with being primarily a morphine user. It is a whole lot safer knowing the dose I'm doing. With heroin, there's always that little inkling of uncertainty (especially after having experienced o.d.) with the first hit. But with my morphine, I'm always confident that I will not be checking out after my hit.

[superman]

In the past 18 months, 336 people have gone under at the SIS, but all have been brought back.

about fucking time SOME people in this world are waking up to reality. and ya gotta admit, waking up in a SIS going through WDs cuz you're a fool and did too much, well that'll teach some good lessons for sure.

[HappinessIsaWarmGun]

about fucking time SOME people in this world are waking up to reality. and ya gotta admit, waking up in a SIS going through WDs cuz you're a fool and did too much, well that'll teach some good lessons for sure.
I disagree with you labelling people as "fools" who overdose. Yes it is foolish to load up that spoon with more and more and more, and risk the cliff edge (so to speak).

However, many, many people overdose inadvertently. They are just hit with a batch of unexpectedly good dope. They weren't trying to take too much.

When one overdoses on morphine it is either because they are totally new and have no idea about quantity, or they deliberately try to overdose (i.e. suicide). In other words, the dose is known and therefore, the good thing about chopping up pharmaceuticals is you know how much you're taking. Whereas with heroin, you're never really certain about the potency and therefore there's always a risk of accidental overdose.