Boogaard’s death shines light on painkiller addiction

By Rob Vanstone, Postmedia News ...“Say you took one pill of hydrocodone (another painkiller) and you had two drinks. It’s really like having four drinks,” she says. “If you take someone who has a tolerance to oxycodone and they’re taking four pills and then they take four drinks, you double the amount of alcohol that you have in your system, and you have two depressants mixed together. People don’t realize, essentially, how quickly those effects can occur in the body.”...Read Here

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