Also, the prosecution seem to be trying to establish he was a frequent user of opioids and therefore would have a greater tolerance for anything he did take in pill form. Presumably then opening the way for arguing, the knee must have killed him rather than the eye-watering levels of opioid reported in his system at autopsy.
However, didn't the white girlfriend say he had only recently started taking pills again after an extended period of being 'clean' ?
Isn't there a wash-out period with opioid? Whereby, if they are not consumed for a period of time, the body looses its tolerance and smaller doses can subsequently have a greater effect?
This may have led to an accidental OD when previously tolerated levels of whatever the fuck was in those pills, is now a lethal dose.
Join me next week, for another episode of The Uninformed and Idle Armchair Speculator.
Another problem is the whole mixing shit together. Someone earlier mentioned "
Speedballs" I.E. mixing stimulants and opiods.
To quote that article:
"
Cocaine acts as a
stimulant, whereas heroin/morphine acts as a
depressant. Co-administration is meant to provide an intense
rush of
euphoria with a high that is supposed to combine the effects of both drugs, while hoping to reduce the negative effects, such as
anxiety, hypertension, palpitations and other common side effects of stimulants and
sedation/drowsiness from the depressant. While this is somewhat effective, as one drug (the CNS stimulant) triggers the
sympathetic nervous system and the other (the CNS depressant) triggers the
parasympathetic nervous system, the two systems that regulate the
fight-or-flight and
rest-and-digest responses, respectively, and simultaneous activity of the two pathways is what normally keeps one's body in natural homeostasis, there is an imperfect overlap in the effects of stimulants and depressants. Additionally, by suppressing the typical negative side-effects of the two drugs, the user may falsely believe they have a higher tolerance, or that they are less intoxicated than they actually are. This can cause users to misjudge the intake of one or both of the drugs, sometimes fatally.
Because the stimulant effects of cocaine wear off far more quickly than the depressant effects of heroin or morphine, fatal
respiratory depression often occurs when the full effects of a heroin or morphine overdose are felt in isolation. Due to the countering effect of the cocaine, a fatally high opioid dose can be unwittingly administered without immediate incapacitation, thus providing a false sense of tolerance until it is too late. This form of delayed
opioid overdose is believed to be the most common mechanism of death in speedball overdoses."
Taking this crap in isolation is already a bad idea, but mixing it is playing with fire. Gobbling down a whole bunch of random mixed funny pills is practically suicide.
Add to this that this wasnt the first time our Black jesus has pushed too far for his own body to handle and i see an overdose death in police custody.
