One of our FReepers is on the EMT team in upstate NY and was called to a case of a victim on this substance on Thursday night. Not sure whether the stricken on lived, or not. I think it was not.
She said she resented the use of the term “overdose”. Since the substance is illegal, there is no dose. Any dose could be the victim’s last since the drug is unregulated. She thinks it should be noted that the victim died from ingestion of an “illegal substance”. “Overdose” is misleading.
A friend of mine nearly died from a dihydrogen monoxide overdose.
I wonder if that substance is regulated.
That's what happens when you get accustomed to bureaucracrats running everything. They hijack the proper scientific / clinical meanings of words and replace them with statutory / regluatory meanings.
IMHO, being able and willing to easily integrate that change into and replace those meanings in our thought processes is not a good thing.
Hair-splitting If it kills, it was too much - an overdose
good point....I’m going to use that in my vernacular....
The weird thing is this deadly heroin is cheaper than pot. Go figure.