Who gets high?

[sesame]

By the way, did you know, that a shot of adrenalin directly to the heart can bring someone back from certain death due to drug overdose? I saw it in a movie called "Pulp Fiction". John Travolta stabbed a needle full of adrenalin in Uma Thurman's heart and she was alive once again! I loved that movie! :D ...Bruce Willis said to the innocent looking dim witted wife, "Its a chopper baby!" and "Zed is dead."

[GRH]

I LOVE "Pulp Fiction," as a film, it's GREAT entertainment! But it's piss-poor education for a narcotic overdose. It's probably done more harm to public perception regarding treating an overdose of a mu-agonist...Shooting shit into the heart that is essentially nor-epinephrine is only going to make things worse. The clinical approach to treating an overdose on a mu-agonsist (traditional opiate narcotic) would be a mu-ANTAGONIST! Clinically speaking, you would administer an IV shot of naloxone to the point of reversing respiratory arrest. If you go too far and induce acute withdrawal symptoms, you might reverse treatment slightly so that you can bring a patient down without bringing on WD's so severely. "Pulp Fiction" was full of SHIT on this particular point!

[Be_my_nude]

Originally Posted by GRH

I LOVE "Pulp Fiction," as a film, it's GREAT entertainment! But it's piss-poor education for a narcotic overdose. It's probably done more harm to public perception regarding treating an overdose of a mu-agonist...Shooting shit into the heart that is essentially nor-epinephrine is only going to make things worse. The clinical approach to treating an overdose on a mu-agonsist (traditional opiate narcotic) would be a mu-ANTAGONIST! Clinically speaking, you would administer an IV shot of naloxone to the point of reversing respiratory arrest. If you go too far and induce acute withdrawal symptoms, you might reverse treatment slightly so that you can bring a patient down without bringing on WD's so severely. "Pulp Fiction" was full of SHIT on this particular point!

My high is entirely in pleasurable activity ( Sex included, of course ) e.g. in experiences and internally-generated chemical stimuli. I am allergic to alcohol ( not that I'm another Pretty Woman or anything ) as I cannot metabolise it, and I only take drugs to combat medical symptoms, illness etc. Having said that, I have never managed to achieve a completely trancendental state, so I think I understand why so many folks try the psychedic route.

So I'm hedonistic, and shamelessly so. My greatest pleasure is still sitting overlooking the sea and watching the sun setting.

Boring isn't it ?

Bella

[sesame]

Originally Posted by GRH

Shooting shit into the heart that is essentially nor-epinephrine is only going to make things worse. The clinical approach to treating an overdose on a mu-agonsist (traditional opiate narcotic) would be a mu-ANTAGONIST! Clinically speaking, you would administer an IV shot of naloxone to the point of reversing respiratory arrest. If you go too far and induce acute withdrawal symptoms, you might reverse treatment slightly so that you can bring a patient down without bringing on WD's so severely.

And here comes Dr. DooLittle, with her in-depth, no-bullshit knowledge bank. Thank you, GRH. But I think you just skimmed the surface; could you go a little deeper and explain? What should be done at the time of an overdose and why? By the way, I liked Samuel Jackson more in Pulp Fiction. He was kind of a philosophical hitman! Did you not like his Bible quote? It was awesome!!:D

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

[sesame]

Is it surprising to note, that many a Christian came to know of this piece of the Bible, for the first time, after watching Pulp Fiction?