Although speedballs have historically been made of heroin and cocaine, that's changing as fentanyl becomes more widespread.
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A former pipe fitter in Minnesota who shot speedballs with a mother of three got 11 years.
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Some drug users may make speedballs themselves, but historically, suppliers and street dealers have never habitually combined the two.
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Some say it's just basic economics — a surge in customer demand for stronger drugs and intentional mixing of drugs as speedballs.
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Taking equally-sized cues from K-pop and hardcore, Hanlon's infectious melodies bring a lovely pop sound to Danzig-era speedballs.
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Tattoos don't necessarily boast of a past checkered by spanking men for money or shooting speedballs, but in my mind they did.
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Surrounding that, an alcove of old leather bags and speedballs that hung like bats from the bolts and beams of the Victorian era building.
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Researchers suggest many of these deaths are likely due to speedballs or goofballs given that post-mortem analysis cannot determine whether the person deliberately or inadvertently took both drugs.
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The rising popularity of speedballs and goofballs could trigger a resurgence in overdose deaths just as the widespread abuse of prescription opioid pills was showing some signs of leveling off.
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More of the deaths are among older heroin users, often longtime black or Latino users in cities, who favor "speedballs," mixtures of cocaine and heroin, reports the Chicago Urban League.
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In the 250 book Righteous Dopefiend, a decadelong study of homeless drug users in San Francisco, Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg documented a split between white and black drug users, with the latter preferring speedballs.
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Photos by Louisa Hamby In a grimy basement off the Bowery in the late 70s, literary madman Jonathan Shaw, son of legendary jazz artist Artie Shaw and starlet Doris Dowling, was high off speedballs, tatting bikers and conmen.
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But in the nation's West, the growing popularity of cocaine cut with fentanyl — known on the street as speedballs — or combinations of methamphetamine and fentanyl — known as a goofballs — are driving a growing number of new overdose deaths.
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They are also being mixed in the same hit by users as speedballs, a rising trend in New York, according to former heroin user and dealer Tino Fuentes, who works to reduce the harm being caused by fentanyl on the East Coast.
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Yeah, and that was ... And then to be explicit, right, at the Chateau Marmont while John Belushi was doing speedballs and you kind of implied whether or not Robin Williams was doing drugs with him or not, but if he was hanging out with him, he was probably was.
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His stable mates Tapwrit and Always Dreaming are scheduled to run for the trainer Todd Pletcher, who has dominated the winter and spring Derby prep races over the past decade, but who has only a single Derby winner to show for the herd of immaculately bred speedballs he has dispatched to Louisville.
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Jon Zibbell, who works with Kral at RTI as a senior public health scientist and frequently interviews opioid users, told me that although many people might like to mix coke or meth or heroin in a single shot, users almost always prefer to do the mixing on their own—the market for pre-mixed "speedballs" has never been a major one.
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Amorginos also wrote music for theatrical plays. Chris Michalatos played with The Speedballs a rockabilly act, for a while.
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George led an overindulgent lifestyle of binge eating, alcoholism and speedballs (heroin and cocaine mixed together) and he became morbidly obese in the last years of his life, weighing 308 pounds (140 kg).
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Speed bags help a fighter learn to keep his or her hands up, improve hand-eye coordination, and learn to shift weight between feet when punching. They are also known as speedballs or speed ball bags. They are generally filled with air and fitted around a tight PU-based or leather material. They come in various sizes, ranging from the large 13x10" (33x25 cm) and 12x9", midsize 11x8", 10x7" (25x18 cm) and 9x6", to the small 8x5", 7x4" and 6x4" (15x10 cm).
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The darker side of his life -- that he regularly lost weeks of time injecting speedballs, was in and out of detoxes and rehabs, and suffered from bipolar disorder -- were not publicized or mentioned until nearly a decade later. Kroupa wrote with great honesty and passion about a variety of topics, but he very carefully danced around his own increasing dependence on heroin. Everybody knew that Kroupa occasionally used heroin, cocaine and dozens of other drugs, but not the extent. By 1996, MindVox was at the absolute height of its powers, yet it was disintegrating.
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She moved to Los Angeles and, as her addiction increased, she became a full-time drug dealer and courier to Wood, Richards, and others in the entertainment world. Smith first met comedian John Belushi on the set of Saturday Night Live in 1976, when the Band were the musical guests. She later met Belushi again through Wood and Richards, when Belushi contacted her to purchase the drugs that eventually killed him. Smith alleges that she injected Belushi with 11 speedballs (a combination of cocaine and heroin) at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood, California in 1982, and that this injection led to his death.
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Around 2001, Jourgensen almost lost his arm when he was bitten by a venomous spider. By his own admission, Jourgensen was suicidal during this period and decided to call an acquaintance he had met years earlier; the acquaintance, Angelina Luckacin, helped Jourgensen give up his massive substance habit (which included heroin and cocaine "speedballs", crack, LSD, various pharmaceuticals and as many as two full bottles of Bushmills whiskey per day). Jourgensen and Barker, along with Max Brody who had joined as a saxophone player for the 1999 tour, focused on developing songs for a new record during 2001 and 2002, with the band issuing Animositisomina on Sanctuary Records in 2003. The sound was strongly heavy metal with voice effects, though it featured an almost-pop cover of Magazine's "The Light Pours Out Of Me".
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