Chess Grandmaster, Stanford graduate, dies at 29 of accidental drug overdose

[unicorn]

https://people.com/chess-grandmaster-daniel-naroditsky-had-dangerous-mix-of-drugs-in-system-at-time-of-death-at-age-29-11836092

"Daniel Naroditsky's cause of death has been revealed months after the chess grandmaster and commentator died at age 29. The North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirms to PEOPLE that Naroditsky's toxicology report showed that he had taken a mix of drugs prior to his death, including substances such as methamphetamine and amphetamine. Traces of 7-hydroxymitragynine and mitragynine were also discovered in Naroditsky's system, both of which are known to be common ingredients in the opioid-like drug kratom. The late YouTuber died from "accidental poisoning after ingesting a drug cocktail," the medical examiner's office confirms to PEOPLE...". 

Another reminder of the dangers of mixing drugs... 😢

[caeron]

I don't object to most drugs in theory, but I wouldn't buy any anymore. I do pot only from licensed dispensaries.  There are too many that have been adulterated with Fentanyl with potentially fatal consequences.

[Travelingguy]

1 hour ago, caeron said:

I don't object to most drugs in theory, but I wouldn't buy any anymore. I do pot only from licensed dispensaries.  There are too many that have been adulterated with Fentanyl with potentially fatal consequences.

Street drugs have always been adulterated.  They don’t have rigid quality control like Eli Lilly.  

[PeterRS]

I thank my lucky stars that I never took up smoking cigarettes or taking drugs. I did, though, try to inhale a marijuana cigarette at a party in Marrakesh in the 1970s. On a solo holiday to Morocco, I had met up with some other British people my age who invited me to a party in their hotel room. Hash was being handed around. In order to blend in, as it were, when one was handed to me, I tried it. I managed two short puffs before coughing almost uncontrollably. I noticed no effect and the guy I fancied at the party clearly was straight. So I left earlyish. But the next morning I realised that for the first - and the only - time in my life, my dreams had been in colour. Strange sensation.

[jimmie50]

1 hour ago, PeterRS said:

I thank my lucky stars that I never took up smoking cigarettes or taking drugs.

Same here.  When I was in college, I had one professor who smoked a pipe.  I thought that was really cool and decided I want to try smoking one, too.  Had never tried smoking before.  Sat around one afternoon at school with a group of friends, had purchase a pipe and some cherry tobacco, lit up and started smoking away...not have the first idea what I was doing.  Inhaled so much that I became physically ill and was in bed for like two days.  That convinced me there and then to never try smoking anything ever again.  Lesson learned.  Never had any desire to try any type of drugs.  

[10tazione]

11 hours ago, unicorn said:

https://people.com/chess-grandmaster-daniel-naroditsky-had-dangerous-mix-of-drugs-in-system-at-time-of-death-at-age-29-11836092

"Daniel Naroditsky's cause of death has been revealed months after the chess grandmaster and commentator died at age 29. The North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirms to PEOPLE that Naroditsky's toxicology report showed that he had taken a mix of drugs prior to his death, including substances such as methamphetamine and amphetamine. Traces of 7-hydroxymitragynine and mitragynine were also discovered in Naroditsky's system, both of which are known to be common ingredients in the opioid-like drug kratom. The late YouTuber died from "accidental poisoning after ingesting a drug cocktail," the medical examiner's office confirms to PEOPLE...". 

Another reminder of the dangers of mixing drugs... 😢

While technically correct, one should also read the background of this story to get an idea what might or might not have led to this sad end ...

[unicorn]

12 minutes ago, 10tazione said:

While technically correct, one should also read the background of this story to get an idea what might or might not have led to this sad end ...

Thanks. I looked him up in Wikipedia, and I assume you're talking about: "Late in his career, Naroditsky was one of many prominent chess players who were the target of unsubstantiated cheating accusations by Vladimir Kramnik. Kramnik's allegations were condemned by many other professional chess players and prompted FIDE to open an ethics investigation against him...". Even unsubstantiated accusations can wreck havoc on a person. Accusations are so easy to make, and often difficult to disprove.

[Keithambrose]

3 hours ago, jimmie50 said:

Same here.  When I was in college, I had one professor who smoked a pipe.  I thought that was really cool and decided I want to try smoking one, too.  Had never tried smoking before.  Sat around one afternoon at school with a group of friends, had purchase a pipe and some cherry tobacco, lit up and started smoking away...not have the first idea what I was doing.  Inhaled so much that I became physically ill and was in bed for like two days.  That convinced me there and then to never try smoking anything ever again.  Lesson learned.  Never had any desire to try any type of drugs.  

Same here, rather lucky. There is alcohol, but I can cope with having a drink!

[khaolakguy]

8 hours ago, PeterRS said:

But the next morning I realised that for the first - and the only - time in my life, my dreams had been in colour.

It is unusual to only dream in black and white.

[Keithambrose]

2 hours ago, khaolakguy said:

It is unusual to only dream in black and white.

Yes, i dream in vivid colours!

[unicorn]

6 hours ago, khaolakguy said:

It is unusual to only dream in black and white.

Maybe PeterRS sees everything in black and white?

[Lucky]

I had never heard of the late chess player, but find it incredibly sad that he died so young from something avoidable.

[PeterRS]

13 hours ago, khaolakguy said:

It is unusual to only dream in black and white.

Perhaps I just do not remember dreaming in any colour, even black and white. But the sensation the morning after in Morocco was very vivid. No idea why other than the couple of puffs of hash having some result.

[Ruthrieston]

My parents both smoked a lot and our house was a permanent nicotine yellow inside, I hated it and have never touched a cigarette. In my years in London I joined the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to protest for gay rights in the late 1980's and the Sister who came from Australia and founded the Sisters in London used to smoke cannabis and some made hashcakes but I never tried it. I was given the name Sister Immaculata Worksurface because my flat was always so clean. We used to stage protests alongside a group called Outrage and the police always went for them and arrested them but we looked like nuns and the police left us alone!