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Originally Posted by Jace
holy shit that sucks
seriously man, that sounds like something was wrong in his brain
technically, you have to take A LOT of painkillers to black out from combining them with drinking....in fact, there aren't that many cases of it without something else combining, like a brain injury
xanax and things like that are known for their effects with alcohol, but pain killers take a lot to give that result
regardless, that sucks, and I hope they find the guy that punched him and I hope he goes to jail for a long time...after all, that is wreckless homicide (or something like that)...if you punch someone and it leads to their death, you are responsible
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Technically, you are dead wrong. Sounds an awful lot like street/bar bullshit to me. (I used to tell myself stuff like that all the time, I have to admit.)
First of all, I think you mean pass out - and there is no way to predict how much alcohol combined with any given painkiller it takes any specific individual to impact them. They do some of the same things in different ways, so there is no real way to qunatify it.
I can (could, since it's been a dozen years since I've "tried") BLACK out on just alcohol - but usually it takes a 3-4 of hours of serious drinking to do it. Put two Tylenol III (codine) in me, and all bets are off - I lost an entire weekend once after two beers on Friday afternoon. There are a lot more serious painkillers than that out there that have far more of an impact on the chemical combinations.
I am truly sorry the guy died, but it could be hard to make a serious case against the perp because of combining drinking and drugs. Even a half-assed public defender could do a lot with something like that.