Incidentally, a hiker who went missing in Joshua Tree last year and whose remains were recently found is believed to have succumbed to alcohol withdrawal on the trail.
Well, if a man wants to dry out, about the only place better than Joshua Tree would be Death Valley itself. Good and dry: that’s how he ended up.
“You got your cocaine in my fentanyl!”
“You got your fentanyl in my cocaine!”
Laughing at this made me feel old. 
“Give it to Mikey, he’ll smoke anything!”
When I underwent training for my current job, I recall them saying that if there was ANY question that your substance abuse was going to be an issue, the FIRST THING you should do is enroll in some treatment. Of course, that pertained to employment issues, not criminal prosecution.
The drug mixture of fentanyl, cocaine, and alcohol emulated ancient anesthesia. Highlighting the critical dangers of using anesthesia drugs outside medical settings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvm9kNNXKhU&t=1s
It’s “he won’t eat it, he hates everything.”
Site:
My name is Mike, and I was in elementary school when those commercials ran.
Just ask Mike Jackson.
I’m assuming they were making a play on words from that commercial.
Although I’m not named Mike(ey), I remember it was “hates everything.” Like “Play it again, Sam,” it was trimmed down from a more unwieldy line.
https://youtu.be/CLQ0LZSnJFE
I felt sorry for Mikey. He hates everything EXCEPT Life cereal? Give the kid a taco.
If he’s like my kid, he won’t eat it.
“He didn’t take the drugs to get dead. If he took the drugs on his own, he took them to get high.” Famous last words.
The original, as I recall, was “Play it, Sam. If she can stand it, I can stand it.” So, not really trimmed, just expanded to give context.
Damn, that sounds unpleasant. Our many dead hikers usually just freeze to death or fall off stuff.
I can’t help but wonder if “succumbed to alcohol withdrawal” is code for “suicide.” Like saying someone “lost their battle with PTSD.”
Because otherwise, how would they be able to tell so quickly what he died from? I mean, the body was just found after 9 months, and the official cause of death has yet to be determined, so… yeah. I take that as a sign there was some external indicator of what happened.
He wasn’t an addict. He took drugs every day for years and never got addicted, so I know he wasn’t an addict.
The article says a journal was found near his body and he wrote in it that he was experiencing withdrawals.
I was thinking more of Ilsa.
Ilsa: Play it once, Sam. For old times’ sake.
Sam: [lying] I don’t know what you mean, Miss Ilsa.
Ilsa: Play it, Sam. Play “As Time Goes By.”