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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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