Comments on Obsolete: Mephedrone - what a fucking disgrace.

Good post. I reached for Brasseye's drugs spec...

2010-03-18T13:18:40.190+00:00

Good post. I reached for Brasseye's drugs special last night myself to balance things out a bit.

Not particularly helpful politically, but very, very funny.

Unlikely to have been the mephedrone, or the metha...

2010-03-18T12:12:20.284+00:00

Unlikely to have been the mephedrone, or the methadone, or the alcohol, which killed them.

Far more likely is it being the combination of all three drugs acting in concert on the body which led to their deaths.

(I've covered a few inquests where they explained in graphic detail how booze and heroin/heroin substitues work bugger up the body's organs to work against each other. such as, booze makes you puke, heroin/substitute dulls down the gag reflex so you don't cough so much, so you quietly drown in your own puke - although that's a very rough explanation as I'm no pathologist)

Excellent post, excellent analysis. I hadn't h...

2010-03-18T07:36:45.819+00:00

Excellent post, excellent analysis. I hadn't heard those kids had been mixing alcohol and methadone - obviously overwhelmingly likely to have been what actually killed them. And both, of course, drugs obtained legally (though presumably, in the case of methadone, not by the kids themselves).

spot on as usual although there have been an unusu...

2010-03-18T00:17:58.340+00:00

spot on as usual although there have been an unusual number of authority figures talking sense on this one.