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11. Suboxone is a narcotic, but it's weak and reduces the effects of other narcotics.

Mon Jan 16, 2012, 04:29 AM

Jan 2012

It binds to the same receptor sites that heroin would, and does it better than heroin does (making it difficult for heroin to bind) but it doesn't activate a lot of the sites it binds to. That's what I mean when I say it's weak. It's also given alongside (in the same pill) naloxone which is an opiate blocker. Clearly not the right medication for this, she needed straight naloxone and a lot of it, but it was in the right direction. Then again, he could have ODed her on suboxone. You know, got the tab from his 300-pound friend with a big-time opiate tolerance and gave it to a tiny 14 year-old girl with no tolerance. But the thing that killed her was probably the heroin. Nasty drug, that one.

Sad that this sort of thing happens.

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14-year-old girl dies after being injected with heroin by 26-year-old man [View all] Cali_Democrat Jan 2012 OP

how sad Broderick Jan 2012 #1

This is next to the worse way to die in my eyes. Why the fcuk would he do that? Ecumenist Jan 2012 #2

He SHOULD go to jail for life IMO. Cali_Democrat Jan 2012 #6

This is past horrific Ecumenist Jan 2012 #8

Ehh, I can think of a lot of bad ways to die. Saving Hawaii Jan 2012 #10

poor child. sad. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2012 #3

Madness ! virgogal Jan 2012 #4

Horrifying, all of it... CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2012 #5

Suboxone is a narcotic, not an anti narcotic Nikia Jan 2012 #7

Suboxone is a narcotic, but it's weak and reduces the effects of other narcotics. Saving Hawaii Jan 2012 #11

so sad jessicasiny Jan 2012 #9

This is very sad... AsahinaKimi Jan 2012 #12