OD

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Just read this great article on Narcan and OD, and realized that I was much closer to ODing that night in Washington Heights than I’d realized (I’d never seen strange snoring listed as a OD symptom, but it makes sense). I had gotten high a couple times since I got to New York, but this was the strongest dope I’d ever done. I was hallucinating shabby old men (maybe Burroughs?) and couldn’t keep ginger ale down. We ended up hanging out in the utility room of one girl’s building, and I was nodding out hard and I guess snoring weirdly. Everyone I was with was younger than me – one was a friend, another I had just met and the other two were just bad and stupid – and people were more concerned that I would wake up the super than that there might be something wrong. At the time, it seemed like a great adventure, but in retrospect, it seems like a ridiculous multiplying of the risk that we were all so ignorant. No one except EMTs had Narcan then, none of us had learned rescue breathing. The best we could do was walk someone around, get them outside for some cold air, or try to get them into a cold bath.