# AP: Love under influence of cocaine and other opiates **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 28, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216 "2004-07-28T03:18:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216/1 "2004-07-28T03:18:06Z")
Hot off the Yahoo! presses, get it before it gets [updated](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040727/ap_en_mu/courtney_love_2): > [@](#): > > Authorities said cocaine and other opiates were found in her system. ---
**Author:** ![Lando\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f17d59/32.png) [@Lando\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lando_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216/2 "2004-07-28T03:20:58Z")
Why the pit? There’s nothing here to pit, only pity. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216/3 "2004-07-28T03:23:35Z")
I thought this was going to be about doing the nasty while high on opiates. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216/4 "2004-07-28T03:25:31Z")
It can be. Porcupine, why don’t you tell us about your experiences in this regard. Please leave no detail unrevealed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lando\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f17d59/32.png) [@Lando\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lando_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216/5 "2004-07-28T03:25:32Z")
Yeah, me too. I’m sick like that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216/6 "2004-07-28T03:36:59Z")
Where’s Francis Bean? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216/7 "2004-07-28T03:40:46Z")
ummm, d0odz, an opiate is something derived from opium, or at least something that stimulated the endogenous enkephalin receptors in the brain. Cocaine, despite only a 4 difference in atoms in its stoichiometric formula versus morphine, is commonly known as a stimulant. One would think a hard bitten AP writer would be well versed in alternative chemistry 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216/8 "2004-07-28T03:43:45Z")
Bah? Cocaine ain’t no opiate. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216/9 "2004-07-28T03:46:00Z")
> [@porcupine](#): > > I thought this was going to be about doing the nasty while high on opiates. So did I. Was also hoping for some juicy article 😃 ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216/10 "2004-07-28T11:08:15Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > It can be. Porcupine, why don’t you tell us about your experiences in this regard. Please leave no detail unrevealed. 😃 Well if you consider not being able to get it up, and if you do manage that, not being able to come exciting details… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Vindi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ee59a6/32.png) [@Vindi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vindi)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216/11 "2004-07-28T12:04:15Z")
> [@Happy Lendervedder](#): > > Where’s Francis Bean? Temporary custody of [11 year old Frances Bean](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,116654,00.html) has been given to Cobain’s Mother, Wendy O’Conner. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216/12 "2004-07-28T12:36:14Z")
> [@Muad'Dib](#): > > Bah? Cocaine ain’t no opiate. I was going to metion that. I don’t even want to read the article if they don’t know the difference. ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216/13 "2004-07-29T01:15:15Z")
> [@Vindi](#): > > Temporary custody of [11 year old Frances Bean](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,116654,00.html) has been given to Cobain’s Mother, Wendy O’Conner. Now if that was Wendy O Williams, then _that’d_ be a story! (Especially because she died in '98…) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216/14 "2004-07-29T02:31:23Z")
Still no correction. I think the editor must be high. ---
**Author:** ![teleute12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@teleute12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teleute12)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216/15 "2004-07-29T07:19:55Z")
And this is news because? ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216/16 "2004-07-29T10:36:36Z")
I’d hazard a guess that the confusion between cocaine and opiates is in fact what Ludovic is pitting here. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-love-under-influence-of-cocaine-and-other-opiates/257216/17 "2004-07-29T10:48:20Z")
> [@Tansu](#): > > I’d hazard a guess that the confusion between cocaine and opiates is in fact what Ludovic is pitting here. We have a weiner!