Overdose - Benzodiazepiness & methadone

[Tmac5150]

I'm not sure if I'm in the right forum, if not sorry.

Is there not a methadone forum??? or harm reduction???

ok here's my post...I wanted to post this so maybe it might keep someone from making a very bad mistake. One they might not be able to regret...

My sister-in-law's brother is the same age as me(33), and we both have pretty much the same history w/drugs(opiates, crystal, coke, methadone, benzos, you name it, I think we prolly done it)...about a month ago he was found laying on the bed w/his feet on the floor, like he was sitting up & just fell back. he had been like this for hours. My brother called me & asked what I thought might be going on. Jnowing he's been recently doing crack, I said it sounded like he had prolly done that or meth and took some benzos to come down and take the edge off & may have od'd. They finally found out he had bought 20 19 mg methadone pills the night before & had a bunch of clonopins. THey finally checked his blood pressure & it was very low. He had thrown up & got some of it in his lungs. The er docs said he had lost so much oxygen to his brain that he'd be severly brain damaged, and prolly would never even wake up if he even lived. Surprisingly, he slowly came around & is now awake and knows about everything. His short term memory has been affected. Sad thing is, he can't move anything but his left arm very little. now he's 33 & gonna have to spend the rest of his life like this(who knows how long). I'm sure he had rather died. I still don't know exactly what combo of drugs he done & when, but they found coke, meth, benzos & methadone in his system. It's really an awful situation. Just like me, he knew what he was doing & prolly had done it 100 times before, but this time it got him. I'm not trying to scare anyone, I just wanted to put it out there. Who know's, maybe someone without any expweience will reaad this post, and decide not to take quite as much of whatever as they were going to....Y'all take it for what it's worth, and just please be careful....

update: Since this happened his 2 best friends have died from mixing benzos & methadone...

Reputation Comments on this post:

Good post warning on the consequences of mixing substances.

[missparkles]

Sorry to hear about swiys relative and thanks for posting this. Swim thinks it's important to be aware of the harm that can be done when mixing any substances. Swim always thought it couldn't happen to her, regardless of her friends dying around her. She was lucky, they weren't.
Brilliant harm reduction post in swims opinion.
Swim hope swiys family manage to cope with this ok.

[el burgo]

"20 19 mg methadone pills the night before & had a bunch of clonopins" plus meth and coke; christ. To swim sounds like failed suicide attempt. Poor fella.

[Spoonbender420]

Sad story benzos and opiates are a very potent combo thats what did the most damage

[Oxymorphone]

SWIM can't say much about coke or meth, but opiates and benzo's are another story... That's terrible to hear and it's also not really a surprise to hear... Benzo's alone can be uncontrollable in even the most hardened people. SWIM remembers going home after work one day and taking some xanax, and being in a good mood wanted to be a little more messed up. He told me that's where the memory stops, 2 days later when he started to remember what he was doing for longer than 30 seconds there was 18mg or more that had just "vanished". The messed up thing is how SWIM doesn't remember making the decision to take all of them, and in his right mind would never attempt it intentionally.

Mixing them with opiates.. SWIM has noticed there's a point where the benzo's take over and severely dwarf the opiate effects so it's not a habbit to mix them but it's still sobering to get a warning like this.. thanks for posting it.