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- From: cd741@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Paul Andarti)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: coke..
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 20:44:26 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Nov17.181851.17556@netcom.com> <2NOV199204420347@vx9000.weber.edu> <oexMaJa00VotM8YWoI@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Nov16.231416.21811@Cadence.COM>
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- In a previous article, lemay@netcom.com (Laura Lemay) says:
-
- >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.
- >
- >
- >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.. :)
-
- Sounds like someone was yanking your chain. These people
- must have been very rich to afford so much coke so why
- didn't they get plastic surgery?? Either that or they were
- snorting Drano. Must be why people smoke it now.
-
- Seems like people like to dispell only the propaganda that
- they want to (ie stryc in LSD). Lets try to be rational about
- all of it...
- P.
-
- --
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