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Can you drink alcohol if you have recently taken pain meds?

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Seizure threshold : Both decrease seizure threshold and also decrease respiratory drive which may be the cause of death in majority of the headline news we read about so thank u for asking these qs and every one should read it again and again.

Dr Rao agreed

Answered 1/30/2014

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