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No, You're thinking of alcohol deaths. Opiates deaths are caused by opiates slowing your breathing and eventually stopping it.
by astura 4y ago
No, You're thinking of alcohol deaths. Opiates deaths are caused by opiates slowing your breathing and eventually stopping it.
- denton-scratch 4y agoWell, anecdote: It's usually said that Jimi Hendrix died of a heroin overdose. I believe the truth is that he died from inhaling vomit.
- astura 4y agoJimi Hendrix neither had alcohol or heroin when he died. He aspirated his own vomit and died of asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates. Specifically, large doses of the sleeping pill Vesparax. Opioids kill by slowing breathing, full stop. The medical term is "Opioid-induced Respiratory Depression." Narcan very rapidly reverses this, which is how it saves lives.