We are getting people with THC in their systems, psychotic or unconscious...the pot most likely has been laced with something but our systems don’t detect it. In about 75 per cent it’s THC with other substances we can detect. The pot that is out there now is much stronger than you momma’s 3 per cent THC “panama red”.
We are getting those “scromitizers” who become passed out or are psychotic and need to be restrained and sedated(with just thc in their systems). The next day some of them don’t know what happened or why they are there. Overdose isn’t the word to use here....perhaps the supply is messed with. My own family member cannot take any pot anymore as it sends her into a 3 day euphoria...and that is just pot. Pot is a gateway drug and it is often seen in the drug tests with cocaine and opiates....no matter how many of the pro potheads try to debunk it. It’s just so much fake news to say that it isn’t a gate way drug!
At times in our general ICU populations we may have at least 10 beds out of 32 filled with OD’s or people who’ve “Mixed and matched”. That’s not counting the drunks who are withdrawing. Anything that is mind altering, outside of acceptable medical use should be banned.
What’s horrible is watching the young die after an accident related to their being stoned! My heart is like a stone regarding attempts decriminalize drugs...but it isn’t so much the users...it’s the drug pushers and higher up shady “deep state” sorts of folks, who regard the drug trade as a way for impoverished countries to pay their loans or to finance wars and arms smuggling off the backs of American drug addicts, that I reserve my deepest disgust for.
I think of the innocent women and men who tried to stand up to Mexican drug lords who get their heads chopped off so some American can shoot dope or smoke weed;...well that innocent blood is also on those drug abusers’ heads as well since it their money or money that was stolen that went to those blood thirsty drug lords!
The Deep State and CIA will have a lot to answer for.
So, on average, approximately 1/3 of your ICU is consumed with overdoses. Of that 1/3, how much is due to opiate overdose?