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What Happens When You Overdose?

Season 5 Episode 74

Your body is a delicately balanced chemical system, and if you take too much of a drug you destroy that balance. That’s what happens when you overdose. We learn how to spot an overdose and the ways different types of drugs wreak havoc.

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