With nobody around to watch her, she found a cup, poured the morphine drip into it and drank. She had mainlined morphine, but never more than 10 cc. Your body absorbs half of the drug when you drink it. That means I had absorbed 40 cc. That s how much my tolerance had increased.
Narcotics depress the respiratory system.
I could have stopped breathing. The experience was a wake-up call, she said. It was near the conclusion of an odyssey that began in 1994, in which she partook of all kinds of drugs. Her sister, also a nurse, was doing cocaine, and so she got into that, she said. Eventually, she moved on to freebase and crack.