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  1. You made that up, right? 

    CiNH = convection inhibition or inhibitors, Cape is convective available potential energy over 1500 is good enough for supercell development these are reading 2-3k,
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  2. Looks like the CINH dropped to almost non existent on the last sounding near DFW area and there’s a ton of CAPE at all levels, if those storms get there the environment is very primed.


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  3. Also I believe Putin said foreign fighters will not be granted POW status? Not sure if that mattered anyway with how they’ve been treating prisoners but doesn’t bode well for the legion guys if they get caught, I hope they don’t make an example of him to dissuade others and that he wasn’t forced to surrender to the Chechens.

  4. What? Stanton has 12 batted balls with exit velos over 120 MPH.

    Stanton really scalds the ball when he touches it, almost seems like he waits a bit too late on some and benefits from the short porch in right, not real sure how much exit velo factors in over launch angle anyway unless you’re glad Guerrero who hits more line drive hr than I’ve even seen.
  5. So basically a flack gun.

    Planes, cruise missiles, drones, close in antipersonnel, but yea that would be pretty bad ass to have in a convoy but I’m pretty sure they’re heavy as fuck and at 6k rounds a minute gonna need a truck as an ammo bearer. One question though is their guidance integrated or are gonna be married to a big ass radar assembly?
  6. When I first got into this I worked in an ER I’ve seen alcoholics walking around with a BAC of 2.0 and over that’s their normal every day baseline. Their med issues start when they can’t maintain and their BAC drops off threat baseline I’ve seen more than 1 hospital that had liquor on hand to treat DT and alcohol withdrawals, funny enough without that the treatment involves Benzos

  7. That I was not aware of.  I mostly encounter benzo fiends that use them as an alcohol adjunct or substitute.  Don't think I've ever heard of an od, though.  I do know the withdrawal is vicious.

    Always knew it was pretty rough stuff but until I had a buddy who’d been on it for ten years try to cold turkey and ended up with seizures and almost died, I really researched it’s Benzos and alcohol, the two vices you cannot just quit and power through, or maybe you can but the threat of death is very much there. And yea Benzos are pretty hard to Od on you take too much you fall asleep and the respiratory depression just isn’t there unless you go the poly pharmacy route
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  8. Also there is something similar to Narcan for Benzodiazepines(Xanax, Valium, Ativan etc) called Romazicon which is not used anywhere near as often as NarCan and I’ve never seen it used in the field, Benzos in any sane amount are not remotely on the level of respiratory depressants as Opiods. Also, you don’t want to send someone who is chemically addicted to Benzos into immediate withdrawals, can cause seizures and death.

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  9. As for the original article, it explicitly states "were hospitalized after overdosing on fentanyl-laced cocaine... the other two became exposed to it while performing mouth-to-mouth on their friends. Paramedics who responded to the scene at a vacation home used opioid-overdose-reversing drug naloxone - also known as Narcan - on the patients. Two men were rushed to the hospital in critical condition and had to be intubated."
    All of this points to respiratory arrest from a fentanyl OD. If respiratory arrest remains without any treatment, cardiac arrest will occur within minutes of hypoxemia (low oxygen), hypercapnia(high CO2), or both.

    He is right, The main and VERY significant concern of an opiod overdose is respiratory arrest as all opioids are respiratory depressants varying in strength, you have about 90 seconds after the opioid has slowed your breathing to the point that it ceases to the point your heart does some pretty bad stuff, mostly irreversible. That is all Narcan is really for they’re only try by to reverse the respiratory depression/arrest so the person starts breathing again which is the only truly immediate emergency. When respiratory arrest turns into cardiac arrest it’s pretty much game over unless there is help close by and even then it can be a coin flip Narcan really does save lives the only issue is the very short half life, if they don’t go to the hospital after it wears off, the opioid kicks back in and you can go right back to where you started.

    Not a Med professional just a 20 year fireman, lots of experience with this
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  10. Narcan binds to the opioid receptors in the brain better than the actual opioid itself removing all opiod effects, the trick is you can’t give an addict the full dose or they’ll pretty much go into immediate withdrawals, they’ve been feathering it for years giving an apneic OD patient just enough to make them start breathing again but not wake up vomiting/fighting other withdrawal effects. It has a very short half life but pretty much erases all of the effects of opiod ingestion for that time.

    And yea it removes all the euphoric effects people who were very very high just moments before they tend to be highly confused/pissed off
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  11. Can somebody with a pharma/medical background explain how Narcan and Fentanyl (and the drugs is laced upon) interact?  And wether this is a good idea or not from a public health standpoint? 

    Narcan binds to the opioid receptors in the brain better than the actual opioid itself removing all opiod effects, the trick is you can’t give an addict the full dose or they’ll pretty much go into immediate withdrawals, they’ve been feathering it for years giving an apneic OD patient just enough to make them start breathing again but not wake up vomiting/fighting other withdrawal effects. It has a very short half life but pretty much erases all of the effects of opiod ingestion for that time.
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