The Evidence - Science Doesn't Lie
Drinking May Be Risky, but Adding Drugs Makes It Riskier
Some people actually believe that when they take alcohol and drugs together, the substances somehow cancel each other out. That math doesn't add up...
Combining alcohol and drugs greatly increases your risk of accidents, death, and other negative consequences. For example, taking cocaine and alcohol together converts the breakdown products of these two drugs into a different chemical, cocaethylene, which is twice as deadly as cocaine is all by itself.
Moreover, studies show that alcohol with heroin causes serious central nervous system depression, possible respiratory arrest, and death. Combining the depressants (Valium, Xanax, Ativan) with booze greatly increases the risk of overdose and death, not to mention more common effects like loss of coordination and coma. Antidepressants (Prozac, Elavil) in combination with alcohol can trigger great increase in blood pressure, resulting in brain hemorrhage and death.
Marijuana with alcohol is especially dangerous, too, because pot suppresses the gag reflex, rendering the drinker unable to vomit the alcohol back up when needed. Marijuana with alcohol also greatly impairs your ability to drive a car. Sedatives like GHB, Rohypnol, Ketamine, and other drugs in this class multiply their effect when used with alcohol - that is why so many date rapists love to combine booze with these sorts of drugs.
