• amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    death is caused by overdose or medical malpractice such as refusing methadone during withdrawals. if all substances were decriminalized, the association between drugs and death would mostly go away

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      19 hours ago

      death is caused by overdose or medical malpractice such as refusing methadone during withdrawals. i

      You can’t die from just opioid withdrawal. Alcohol and benzos on the other hand…

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        12 hours ago

        You technically can from dehydration, but it’s not the same risk as drugs that fuck with GABA receptors.

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          21 hours ago

          What? Layne Staley died of his addiction, likely a blood infection based on the interviews ive seen. He refused to stop and get medical attention. My best friends mother drank herself to death, with a broken hip, she drug herself into her car and drove to the liquor store and just honked at people until someone would get the liquor she wanted, then drove home to drink alone. These people had every opportunity and resource to stop, and get the drug, and chose the drug, even when their health was wanning.

          Death is perhaps one of the most natural part of addiction. Stopping is abnormal.