I was bored so I did some light reading on cocaethylene because I wanted to understand how ethanol and cocaine was converted into cocaethylene within the body, and why it has its own unique effects.

A statement I kept seeing on multiple resources was "ingesting cocaine and alcohol at the same time increases the likelihood of sudden death by 18 to 25 fold.". Going off that statement I assume cocaine has some kind of baseline probability of causing "sudden death".

To me this sounds misleading. Is "sudden death" related to people with cardiovascular issues? Is it from people doing massive lines and accidentally OD-ing? Or is it just misinformation used as a scare tactic? I've had people around me die from accidental opioid overdoses and alcohol poisoning, but ive never seen or heard about a person suddenly dying from a bump of coke on the news or online.