The mixture of drugs, alcohol, and mental health issues are an absolute recipe for disaster.

It's like trying to cook a dish using only pickles, brown gravy, oranges, and vanilla ice cream.

It's just not something that's going to work out at all, no matter how hard you try.

When you're encountering someone with all those issues, the sum of all of them can be

incredibly scary and a lot of times violent as well.

There are a number of reasons why drugs and mental illness can be a dangerous combination.

First, drugs can alter the brain chemistry in ways that can trigger and worsen mental illness.

For example, marijuana can trigger anxiety and paranoia and people with schizophrenia.

Second, drugs can interfere with the effectiveness of medications that are used to treat people with mental illness. And lastly, people with mental illness are more likely to abuse drugs in an attempt to cope with their symptoms.

It can also lead to a number of other problems,

like increased risk of suicide, violence, homelessness, and incarceration.

If you haven't been able to guess it yet,

I'll be talking about an incident involving at least a combination of alcohol and mental illness, but possibly drugs as well.

This is an extremely new incident that just happened a couple days ago, and it was an incident that my agency was involved in.

Welcome back to Music City, 9-1-1.

9-1. What is the address of your emergency?

29-30. 911. What is the address of your emergency? 2937 split oak trail.

You said 2937 split oak trail?

Yes, ma'am.

Okay, and this is off of split oak drive and oak forest drive in Antioch?

Yes, ma'am.

So what is the phone number that you're calling from?

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