What is a 'speedball'?

What is a 'speedball'?

Michael Jourdan (Drug Researcher) gives expert video advice on: What are the psychological effects of heroin?; How does heroin affect the human body?; How do opioids like heroin affect the central nervous system? and more...

Well, some addicts really, or some drug users--they need not be addicts--some drug users want "bang for the buck" and will want both an upper and a downer, and use all sorts of combinations, and this "speedball" is a particular combination of using both heroin and cocaine at the same time. Now, some like the effects of that. Well, I say any combination of drugs always heightens the risks considerably, because there is such a thing as "cross effects" that you need not necessarily know in advance. Now, the most common thing to combine is alcohol and some other drugs. And alcohol is quite dangerous to combine because it potensates the effects of whatever drug you take besides alcohol in unforeseeable ways. And sometimes that can kill you, even though the doses are minor of both drugs, but the combination effects of those two drugs together will actually make up a great health hazard.