No, it was an ex of mine I saved. She'd taken an overdose and I found out about it, way back in the day. Ran all the way up to her place of work, calling the paramedics as I went, didn't stop for miles, was out of breath as fuck when I did get there, but pointed her out, and the paramedics then could take her, against her will, for treatment. Nothing to do with drugs, no more than anything she might have been treated with in hospital, but I don't know what they did, wasn't there for that. Just called them up, told them what had happened (suicidal paracetamol OD, amount taken-unknown) and then pointed her out so they could, unfortunately, take her by force into the ambulance, and I rode with her to hospital, to provide what comfort I could emotionally.
If I hadn't, then if she had taken enough, which wouldn't have been difficult, she could easily have died of liver failure over several days. Luckily there is, due the number of such incidents, either deliberate or accidental which involve paracetamol, an antidote which exists, so presumably was used on her.
Nothing to do with my chemistry specialities. And most of that isn't about saving lives. Its about making the preparing of such substances and their precursors easier, safer, and in higher yields of cleaner products. Plus all sorts of knowledge, helping to pass on what knowledge I have to new Bees.
Nothing to do with addiction. This is aimed at those who make the stuff, so they can do a better job and at less risk in some cases. Afterall, what clandestine chemist wants to use a crappy time consuming process to get a less pure product that requires more recrystallizations, when they can do it far faster with microwave irradiation than conventional heating. IMO cutting down 6-7 hours for a kg of precursor down to 30 minutes or so, thats pretty good going, especially when the precursor in question is better quality altogether.
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