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Yeah, so breathing, I think you said early on that that typically is where fatal overdoses derive from. You just stop breathing, stop being able to breathe. But there's other ways you could die. I think you mentioned heart attack earlier too. Another famous one with opioids is your gag reflex is suppressed.
Yeah, so breathing, I think you said early on that that typically is where fatal overdoses derive from. You just stop breathing, stop being able to breathe. But there's other ways you could die. I think you mentioned heart attack earlier too. Another famous one with opioids is your gag reflex is suppressed.
Yeah, so breathing, I think you said early on that that typically is where fatal overdoses derive from. You just stop breathing, stop being able to breathe. But there's other ways you could die. I think you mentioned heart attack earlier too. Another famous one with opioids is your gag reflex is suppressed.
So if you're basically knotted off and you throw up, say you've been drinking as well, you're not going to choke that stuff out or spit it out or throw it up out of your mouth. It can just stay in your mouth and it can go down your lungs and you aspirate and or choke on your own vomit. That's another way you can die from an overdose as well.
So if you're basically knotted off and you throw up, say you've been drinking as well, you're not going to choke that stuff out or spit it out or throw it up out of your mouth. It can just stay in your mouth and it can go down your lungs and you aspirate and or choke on your own vomit. That's another way you can die from an overdose as well.
So if you're basically knotted off and you throw up, say you've been drinking as well, you're not going to choke that stuff out or spit it out or throw it up out of your mouth. It can just stay in your mouth and it can go down your lungs and you aspirate and or choke on your own vomit. That's another way you can die from an overdose as well.
Yak it up.
Yak it up.
Yak it up.
Blow chunks it up.
Blow chunks it up.
Blow chunks it up.
Right. A lot of people don't have access to the kind of doctor that's going to prescribe that for them. Even among medical professionals still, believe it or not, there's still a lot of stigma associated with being an opioid addict. Yeah. Which is pretty rich, considering that American physicians, a significant chunk of them got America hooked on opioids in the first place.
Right. A lot of people don't have access to the kind of doctor that's going to prescribe that for them. Even among medical professionals still, believe it or not, there's still a lot of stigma associated with being an opioid addict. Yeah. Which is pretty rich, considering that American physicians, a significant chunk of them got America hooked on opioids in the first place.
Right. A lot of people don't have access to the kind of doctor that's going to prescribe that for them. Even among medical professionals still, believe it or not, there's still a lot of stigma associated with being an opioid addict. Yeah. Which is pretty rich, considering that American physicians, a significant chunk of them got America hooked on opioids in the first place.
But that's neither here nor there right now. So I think there was a study from 2022 that the CDC conducted where they said that of the three point seven percent of all adults in the United States who need medication assisted treatment. Um, I think only about 25% of that 3.7% were able to get it. Yeah.
But that's neither here nor there right now. So I think there was a study from 2022 that the CDC conducted where they said that of the three point seven percent of all adults in the United States who need medication assisted treatment. Um, I think only about 25% of that 3.7% were able to get it. Yeah.
But that's neither here nor there right now. So I think there was a study from 2022 that the CDC conducted where they said that of the three point seven percent of all adults in the United States who need medication assisted treatment. Um, I think only about 25% of that 3.7% were able to get it. Yeah.
One of the other ways that you can get off of it is to go to prison where they are just like, good luck drying out.
One of the other ways that you can get off of it is to go to prison where they are just like, good luck drying out.