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- From: lemay@netcom.com (Laura Lemay)
- Subject: Re: coke..
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.181851.17556@netcom.com>
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- References: <2NOV199204420347@vx9000.weber.edu> <oexMaJa00VotM8YWoI@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Nov16.231416.21811@Cadence.COM>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:18:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.231416.21811@Cadence.COM> phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel) writes:
- > In article <oexMaJa00VotM8YWoI@andrew.cmu.edu> Haw Juin Lin <hl27+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- > >There have been many cases where people's noses were completely rotted
- > >off, leaving no cartiledge<spelling??>, no skin, no flesh.
- >
- > Oh, yeah? References, please.
- >
- > Not that I doubt your veracity, but I doubt your veracity.
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- When I was in high school, I worked for a biostats group at
- Massachusetts General Hospital doing data base programming and file
- organization of a study on panic attacks. By coincidence, the group
- at Mass general that was doing the panic attack study was also doing a
- study on *extreme* cocaine use (I don't remember the exact amounts you
- had to be using to qualify, and I have no experience with cocaine so I
- can't make a guess, but I remember that it was some ridiculous amount
- a day.)
-
- Often when I went down to the clinic to pick up interviews and reports
- from the panic attack people, I passed people who were participating
- in the coaine use study, waiting for thier interviews. Every once in
- a while there would be a patient whose nose had collapsed entirely
- into thier face. And it was more than one; I asked the clinic nurse
- about it, and she explained (with some disgust) that those were the
- most extreme cocaine subjects.
-
- I didn't stare so I can't say if all the skin was gone or not, but
- these people most definitely had holes where thier noses should have
- been. Scared the shit out of me; I still won't do cocaine to this
- day (although just about every other drug is fair game.. :)
-
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