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Combining drugs can turn deadly. One drug may alter another's breakdown rate or amplify its effects. "Even if some of the desired effects—such as pain relief—are synergistic, all drugs have negative side effects too. And synergistic side effects can be deadly," says Ellen Unterwald, Ph.D., director of the center for substance abuse at Temple University school of medicine. Her advice: avoid mixing meds without a doctor's approval, and be especially careful with the toxic two

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