Notable deaths attributed to speedball use[edit]

Pete Farndon[citation needed]

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/28/world/1936-secret-is-out-doctor-sped-george-v-s-death.html

Every day is a school day.

there's an art world character very on the scene who reportedly was basquiat's heroin supplier. i realize he would have got it somewhere else, but i always want to roundhouse this person when i see them

thought Chris Farley was a ham sandwich tbh

From any number of angles its an easy mistake to make

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/mamacass.asp

i didn't say Mama Cass, everybody knows she died from a speedball

"that character" in eyes wide shut

always thought these must be some rly good shit

these speedballs

you kids today with your speedballs

30 years ago a child would kick a ball on the street, now they're kicking speedball habits in crack houses

By 20 January, he was close to death. His physicians, led by Lord Dawson of Penn, issued a bulletin with words that became famous: "The King's life is moving peacefully towards its close."[97][98] Dawson's private diary, unearthed after his death and made public in 1986, reveals that the King's last words, a mumbled "God damn you!",[99] were addressed to his nurse when she gave him a sedative on the night of 20 January. Dawson wrote that he hastened the King's death by giving him a lethal injection of cocaine and morphine. Dawson noted that he acted to preserve the King's dignity, to prevent further strain on the family, and so that the King's death at 11:55 pm could be announced in the morning edition of The Times newspaper rather than "less appropriate ... evening journals".[99][100]

http://www.ghostofaflea.com/archives/GoldenBough.jpg

I'd never heard that George V story before.

It was news to me too tbh

I had to google Zac Foley and remembered he was the eejit who could fit a whole lime into his foreskin. George V for me because that is genuinely interesting and new to me, most of the others are trad speedballers.

always thought these must be some rly good shit

otm

did both sides within an hour of each other a couple times but never went for the mix because oh no death

See also

Drug abuse
Poly drug use
List of drug-related deaths
Combined drug intoxication
Vodka Red Bull

This poll made me finally get around to listening to Judee Sill, so thanks for that. She was great. Sad about the speedball.

If she had just stuck to the speed, everything would have been alright.

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