Toxic & Deadly Drugs

With yet another famous person dying from a toxic mix of prescription drugs & alcohol [or at least that is the current theory of what killed Whitney Houston], it got me wondering. Especially since she was apparently on Xanax and I also take xanax to sleep.

Is there a safe limit on scriipt drugs or a combo of them or is it different for each person? Should they all be considered 'deadly' and therefore, taken only when needed and only for a time? Or are we risking death with every pill?

I have a friend whose husband is a total drug addict from taking about five or six heavy duty pain drugs, constantly, for many years now. I'm amazed he is still alive and he's only in his early 50s. He chokes on his food, he falls down a lot, he's barely functional but my friend just says he's in so much pain he can't NOT take these drugs.

But I digress.

Is the deadly dose or combo dose of scriipt drugs just basically a crap shoot? How does alcohol make it worse?



Marci
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