I took a few methadone from my grandpa. They were 10 milligrams. What youre listening to are actual calls. How is he acting . At the Washington Poison Center in seattle. Just drowsy. Okay. And lately more and more of them sound Something Like this. And today i took about 90 milligrams of percocet. Oh, you did . 6 00 i wasnt really thinking and i did a bar of xanax and im reading all this stuff online about thousand thats a very lethal combination. I have a lot of friends who died during their sleep and i wasnt really sleeping. Now im wondering if i should stay up tonight. That kind of call to me is really scary. Oh, it is scary. What goes through your mind . Id be very frightened about that young man not making it through the night. Dr. Bil hurley is the medical director of poison center, also a trauma doctor. Possibly too many meds. Thai not sure what they have. Were in seattle in part because the problem is bad. This bottle still has quite a bit in it. But also because, as you will s
Right now. And over the next hour, three people will die. He went to sleep, and he had no idea this was going to be his last night on earth. From misusing perfectly legal Prescription Drugs. Taking a deadly dose. Im a little concerned that may have taken something that wasnt good for me on accident. I took a few methadone from my grandpa. They were 10 milligrams. What you are listening to are actual calls. How is he acting . At the Washington Poison Center in seattle. Just drowsy . Okay. And lately, more and more of them sound Something Like this. And today, i took about 90 milligrams of percocet. Oh, you did . 6 00, i wasnt really thinking and i did a bar of xanax and im reading all this stuff online how that is a very lethal combination. I have a lot of friends who died in their sleep and i just wasnt really thinking. Now im wondering if i should stay up tonight. That kind of call to me is really scary. Oh, it is scary. What goes through your mind . So, i would be very frightened abo
That kind of call to me is really scary. Oh, it is scary. What goes through your mind . So, i would be very frightened about that young man not making it through the night. Dr. Bill hurley is the medical director of the poison center. He is also a trauma doctor. Possibly too many of his meds. They are not sure what all theyve got. We are here in seattle, in part, because the problem is bad. This bottle still has quite a bit in it. But also because, as you will see, there are real solutions. No other meds . For hurley, it started five years ago. Hes got pinpoint pupils. He started noticing overdoses, a lot of them, coming through his e. R. Doors. We thought, well, these are the guys who are on the street, maybe using heroin. But looking deeper, he realized they werent junkies, not at all. It usually began with a back sprain. They were taking these medications not to get high but try to control pain in most cases, back pain and then they were mixing them with other medications and having
Not making through the night. Dr. Bill hurley is the medical director of the poison center. He is also a trauma doctor. Possibly too many of his meds. They are not sure what all theyve got. We are here in seattle, in part, because the problem is bad. This bottle still has quite a bit in it. But also because, as you will see, there are real solutions. No other meds . For hurley it started five years ago. Hes got pinpoint pupils. He started noticing overdoses, a lot of them, coming through his e. R. Doors. We thought, well, these are the guys who are on the street, maybe using heroin. But looking deeper, he realized they werent junkies, not at all. It usually began with a back sprain. They were taking these medications no to the get high but try to control pain in most cases, back pain and then they were mixing them with other medication and having fatal reactions to that. A lot of people have back pain. A lot of people take pain medications for that pain. And what youre saying a lot of
as we speak, someone died right now from an overdose, and that s something that has to change. dr. kahana at the university of washington center for pain relief says that change starts with a simple first step, spend time and listen to patients. how would you best describe this place? a place where we can actually sit and listen and understand what patients have. i thought, i ll never get out of this. it was 20 years that i had pain. dr. kahana believes better treatment and fewer unnecessary prescriptions will come from understanding a patient s entire life experience. you have to start capturing the story of patients in a way that you can extract it and analyze it. this is your home screen. at the center for pain relief, they do this through a system they call pain tracker. it starts with patients filling out a questionnaire before the appointment.