

It's extremely dangerous to ingest it when not properly dosed. Also, the chemical used is tetrodoxine, a chemical of which the effects are well-documented to say the least.You don't have to overdose to get the side-effects of cocaine, you just have to take enough. It's not exactly OD'ing, he just doesn't have a constant stream of thoughts any more because his nervous system has been permanently damaged, it's just a side-effect.Also note that the local military don't particularly care about their own grunts getting piss-drunk or high.Well, it's not like the other soldiers HAVE to figure out by themselves that Degtyarev took the Anabiotics at any point, especially since they'd be more concerned about the emission and finding cover for themselves rather than paying attention to just what the hell Degtyarev over there is trying to swallow, and even if they did find out, I doubt they'd be concerned with it seeing as how they have more important matters on their hands.From a canon story perspective, wouldn't OD'ing on a untested, unknown substance be grounds for immediate discharge within the USS, especially when emissions are easy enough to avoid by hiding indoors, and anabiotics are not essential to the mission at hand due to the abundance of cover ? Marked by the Zone AchievementWhen Major Degtyarev takes 3 or more anabiotics during consecutive emissions in Call of Pripyat, it has the side effect of silencing "the voices inside his head", and the ability to shrug off further emissions unaided.

Still a poor strategic decision, since there's no way they would survive attacking the NPP with only a handful of troops and no backup or aerial support. For the first part, I'm not sure, but I think that Colonel Kovalsky says that after the helicopters crashed, they attempted to reach the Chernobyl NPP on foot but got pinned down in Pripyat. It does make sense that he would be one of the first to find a path there. Strelok explains that Guide met the military survivors and led them to Pripyat.It's more than that - why, out of all the possible areas that you could have gathered survivors at for an extraction, would you pick Pripyat, which is guaranteed to be filled with extremely hostile and well-armed Monolith troops? On top of that, how did they even get there from Zaton or Yanov? Through that anomaly- and poison gas-filled tunnel?.After the Major confirms they've been killed he sends a further one recon troop out (!) whom gets possessed by a controller, three more demolition troops (who also get killed) and the lieutenant (whom the Major saves from inside a refrigerator). When holed up with around fifteen Elite Spetsnaz troops inside a city full of hostile (insane) Monolith troops, mutants and zombies, sending out a mere three troops for zone recon is suicide. COP - Military ActionsThe commander of Operation Fairway's actions don't make sense inside Pripyat.
