The other day swim was hanging with a couple he knows who live on the street. He sees them loads, they're alot of fun, and have similar vices to swimself.
The guy is an alcoholic and junkie, and the girl is a junkie, who drinks, but hasn't reached the point of being an alcoholic yet. He's 26, she's 19.
When swim met up with them, they seemed normal, a little tipsy, but they're always tipsy, (always drinking super-strength beer), and it's never been a problem before. Swim and them scored, and found a place to do their normal doses, a bag for swim, and half a bag each for the couple.
At first they seemed ok, just pretty high. Swim found out at this point they'd taken 10 valium/temazepams about 5 hours ago, (6 for the guy and 4 for the girl).
A few minutes after the hit though, they really started worrying swim. Swim had known that benzos with any depressants wasn't a good thing, but had never really seen what a dramatic difference it makes. The girls lips were going purple then blue, and her keks were round her ankles (they go in the groin). Neither of them could really stand, and well, were basically worrying swim.
So swim stayed with them for about an hour, just making sure they stayed alive, until some do-gooders saw them and started calling (swim guesses) the police. Swim managed to move them at this point, as even in that state
'police!' wud make the fuckers move.
Swim lost them soon after. Apparently they were woken up the morning after by the police and a drug worker. And neither had any recollection of seeing swim.
Anyway, swim thought he should share this story, as it was a shock to him just how dangerously these 2 were affected by a few benzos.
These two have been on the scene for a while, and swim has seen them drink 9% beers and bottles of fortified wine
all day long and still be fine when they did their evening shot.
However, a few little pills that they gave no real thought to nearly killed them.