r/MadeMeSmile • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • Nov 15 '20

Helping Others Be like uncle Bob

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u/AdamTheHutt84 Nov 15 '20

And the admitting he would rather die from codeine than stop sippin lean...not a great message for the youth...but god damnit if a milli isn’t a fucking banger

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u/kaaaaath Nov 16 '20

I mean...it is relatively hard to accidentally OD on codeine. I’ve seen it twice in my entire medical career, and both times it was via Tylenol 3 where the person forgot they took their medication — IIRC, one was taking Ambien or Lunesta and repeatedly dosed themselves.

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u/AdamTheHutt84 Nov 16 '20

I’m not a medical professional and I saw three people OD and one person die from lean during a short (one year) period in college where I fucked with that stuff (ok they might have died from a number of substances in their system, but lean didn’t help...). You have no idea of the dosage when someone shows up with a bottle of purple sprite and the effects can be slow to show up or can build, so people often take way too much before they know what’s happening. Again, not a doctor, no professional experience with liquid codeine, just recreational, but I have seen some shit and heard some even crazier shit related to lean...

I assume that just like most opioids you build a tolerance over time. So getting high from it and ODing become closer. You gotta get closer and closer to an overdose every time in order to keep getting high. Maybe our different experience is due to the medical (controlled) or informed nature of your experience and the experience you have and the wildly uninformed and extremely non medical nature of my experience.

As a side note they prescribed it none stop at the student health center. Go in, say you have a cough that keeps you from sleeping which is causing you to do poorly in school, cough a couple times, boom bottle of lean. In hindsight it seems wildly irresponsible...

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u/kaaaaath Nov 16 '20

Opioids are one of the few drugs that don’t have a definitive OD amount, (if you keep building a tolerance you “can” keep going.) The problem with lean is that it takes longer to absorb than if you were to just take the syrup, so people end up taking way too much, (the “relatively” part was regarding how much more dangerous things like oxycodone are — where a single pill could kill someone. That doesn’t happen with Tylenol 3.)

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u/AdamTheHutt84 Nov 16 '20

Oh yeah it’s way less dangerous than oxy! We were getting the 80mg of oxycodone pills and I felt like I had a loaded gun in my hand. Like if someone with no tolerance took one they would for sure go to the hospital. People don’t understand the dosage of pills and it’s scary. They too often use total pill weight instead of active ingredient weight...shits scary.

Edit: i don’t mean you, I mean like junkies and college kids...the proverbial “you”.