I was looking on the Internet to find more information on cocaine alcohol interactions. From what I read it does appear to cause quite a few problems as cocaine is a stimulant and alcohol a depressent.
This article is pretty interesting as the victim was attacked by someone high on cocaine and alcohol and seems to have been left in the same medical condition as Terri
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4469299.stm
Interesting. Maybe it's "normal" for Brit punks to jump up and down on their screaming victims' heads, but I'd guess the coke-alcohol combo helped it along a bit. Let's keep our eyes open for more info or clues.
"The combination of cocaine and alcohol is physiologically more hazardous than the use of either substance alone. Two independent studies conducted by Farre et al. (8,9) found that when compared with the effects of cocaine use alone, the combined effects of cocaine and alcohol produced greater increases in heart rate, which could raise the risk of cardiovascular toxicity linked with cocaine use. Although excessive use of either cocaine or alcohol can result in severe liver damage, toxicity is greatly increased when these two substances are used together (10, 11).
"Research has described the differences in demographics, substance use, and psychopathology variables among persons dependent on cocaine alone and persons dependent on cocaine complicated by alcohol use (12). These researchers found that those subjects who used both alcohol and cocaine had significantly higher depression and global severity scores and were more likely to experience paranoid psychosis ... than those who only used cocaine."
"Paranoid psychosis" sounds like our boy, doesn't it? Everybody's out to get him. The government, the Schindlers, the religious right, the anti-abortion crowd, that dratted Pope, even Tom DeLay! And the &*%^$#$@ Freepers!