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Originally Posted by macallan25
Kevin..........it is not difficult at all to conceal that you are coked up unless somebody knows exactly what to look for. I doubt that a bunch of girls at a big party would start checking out her pupils and the palms of her hands the minute she walked in the door. Furthermore, when you are doing a lot of blow, it pretty much cancels out the effects that alcohol have on you.........which is why it is dangerous to drink a lot and mix in cocaine.
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I would think it'd be easy to conceal from people who didn't know what to look for, but what about the people she was using with? I guess it's possible that she consumed different substances with different groups, but it seems like there would have been a couple of people who might have recognized the danger she was in based on their own personal experience. I'm not limiting this to just sorority members or just the night of her death.
I don't think most drug or alcohol related deaths are in groups of people who up until the death had no previous experience with drugs and alcohol. It would seem that if we encourage people to take more responsibility for each other, some if it might be preventable, but maybe I'm kidding myself about the level of clear thinking people are capable of.
I read about the SMU girl on a blog, but I'm guessing she wasn't Greek on the reports would have emphasized it. In the report I read, her mom found a rolled up bill that had been used to snort cocaine in the girl's room in her condo a couple of weeks before her death. I'm not sure what one's mom should do in such situation, but it's surprising based on my family experience that she was available to meet with her drug dealer. Was the cause of death an OD in her case? I wasn't sure that the dealer hadn't killed her.