[bike1941]

I thought they left in the beginning cause they knew what was going on.

[Boondoggle]

Reason #348 why I won't be visiting certain parts of the world... ever.

[Lil_Lisa]

Looks like a storage closet. He was clearly instantly having a bad reaction, yet they all just left the poor guy. Then the aunt starts cleaning up the items off of the floor.

[smokydragonfly]

Off brand dr.feelgood.

[Riendespecial]

Originally Posted by ThatOneTattooedGuy ↗

Nah, man, I was a heroin junkie for too many decades to admit and a little air bubble isn't of much concern. This hit him like a hotshot. I've seen fentanyl take OG veteran junkies down like this, though. It's got me stumped if it isn't a straight up overdose.

For sure. Williams S Burroughs, a well known old school junkie, has a quote in his book "Junky":
"If air bubbles could kill you, there wouldn't be a junkie alive".
Not saying air embolisms aren't dangerous, just not as prevalent as the myth portrays.

[Spiffyfable]

Dr. FeelNotSoGood

[AriaDonna]

there was an air bubble in the syringe?

[medicineman360]

He didn't "slam" whatever medicine he was giving him. It was a relatively slow dosage.

Also, I doubt it was an OD of any kind. With an overdose, whether it be opiates, benzos, barbs or what have you, the respiratory drive is what will cease functioning first. They'll likely have agonal respirations for a minute or two, along with a preceeding time of cyanosis in the lips and nail beds.

This dude was DEAD. Way dead. Dead right there. That look on his face, when he slumped back and he was facing up toward the camera? That is the face of someone whose heart has stopped beating. He has ceased to be.

This is just a wild guess, but who knows.... Just because it's "stomach pain" doesn't mean you're gonna get typical pain medicine for it. He MIGHT have been ordered Protonix (generic is pantoprazole), but some highly uninformed "nurse" might have mistakenly given something else.

[JoseQuinones]

Looks like a ketamine OD. This is why pain medication is injected via the intramuscular route, not directly into a vein. It titrates the dose and prevents instant uptake like this. The only time you give anything that strong via the IV route is with an IV pump, which dilutes the dose in enough saline solution to control how fast it enters the system.

[JoseQuinones]

To explain why it looks like ketamine, the drug does not relax skeletal muscles the way opioids do. It will make you pass out and quit breathing but you can stay as stiff as a board. Which is why it's not used alone as a surgical anesthetic. You need a paralytic like succinylcholine to make the patient pliable for surgery.