• @_number8_@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    why can’t they just give them an insane amount of opiates rather than all this odd shit

    (if we have to kill people, which we shouldn’t)

    • @emptiestplace@lemmy.ml
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      35 months ago

      I know a lot of people die accidentally this way, but I wonder if it’s always peaceful. I had to take oxys once and - granted, the dose was minuscule - I experienced some pretty intense paradoxical effects for a while before I noticed any degree of sedation. Would giving 100x guarantee immediate sedation and respiratory shutdown, or would they be convulsing and puking everywhere on their way out?

      • @abbotsbury@lemmy.world
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        45 months ago

        You know that sleepyness where you literally cannot keep your eyes open and keep dozing off? That’s what an opioid overdose is like. If you gave someone a bunch of morphine, they’d fall asleep and soon after stop breathing.

        Some people experience different levels of nausea from different kinds of opioids, so some level of discomfort will exist in some percent of the population without either testing out the different opioids on the prisoner or giving them an anti-nausea drug.