I ended up talking to the brand-new gynecologist who had just started in their office. Breathlessly, I told him, “I’m at this party and everyone is throwing up. They took some kind of drugs but I don’t know which kind. Someone is lying unconscious in a bath with his fingernails turning blue.” “All right,” he said, his voice steady. “Take him to the emergency room right away. You can just drop him off, nobody will arrest you, and they’ll take care of him. You should take him right away, any breath could be his last.
