Pressure
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People also need to be careful.....Whenever They Are With Others Who
Are Drinking Because Of:
Increased possibility of being pressured by others.
Increased chance of people actually
pressuring themselves because they don’t
want to be seen as being different from others.
Increased risk of having other date rape drugs like GHB
or Roofies dropped into drinks without your knowledge.
Increased risk of becoming either a victim OR a
perpetrator of sexual violence.
Increased risk of things just getting out of control:
Unfortunately, people often do things in groups that
they NEVER would do alone.

Whenever Alcohol And Marijuana Are Both Present:
When someone drinks too much, a toxic compound
called acetaldehyde (asset-AL-duh-hide) builds up in
the bloodstream. As this compound reaches the brain,
the brain sends a signal to the stomach to throw up. This is
gross and disgusting, but throwing up means that no
more of the poisonous compound can get in to
damage the cells.
If a person smokes marijuana while drinking alcohol,
the chemicals in marijuana stop the brain from
sending the signal to throw up. The result is higher
and higher levels of acetaldehyde to the point that
the person can pass out, fall into a coma, and
possibly even die.
Throwing up, however, isn’t always the answer either.
When people pass out from drinking too much alcohol,
the food and liquid that comes up from their stomach
can go down the windpipe and enter the lungs instead.
This can result in difficulty breathing, pneumonia...
even death

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