Ativan and alcohol effects include, among other things, decreased respiration, low blood pressure, confusion and disorientation, and intense intoxication. Mixing Ativan and alcohol, two strong depressants, will immediately slow how quickly the body takes in oxygen.
Patrick Calhoun was a giant of a man in his sonâs eyes. One evening the young John Calhoun watched his father ride home from a legislative session in Charleston much like he always did, but this night Patrick Jr. was leading a slave straddled on a horse behind him.
His mother, Jane Polk (nÃ©e Knox), was a descendant of a brother of the Scottish religious reformer John Knox. She named her firstborn after her father James Knox. Like most early Scots-Irish settlers in the North Carolina mountains, the Knox and Polk families were Presbyterian.