PeoplesMind
08-09-2003, 09:20 PM
Retailers are adding Coricidin HBP, an over-the-counter cough and cold medicine, to their list of drugs to closely monitor after two Merrill 20-year-olds overdosed on the drug Thursday.
Area grocery stores and pharmacies began restricting the sale of Dramamine by keeping the over-the-counter drug behind service desks in March after the Merrill Police Department investigated a case in which two teenage girls took large doses of the motion sickness medicine to get a hallucinogenic high.
And on Thursday, officers responded to two calls, one at 8:30 a.m. and one at noon, in which two 20-year-olds, who were friends, were taken to the hospital after ingesting at least 32 tablets of Coricidin each, said Lt. Ned Seubert of the Merrill Police Department.
"People have been taking the drugs off of the shelves to get high," he said. "It is unbelievable." Coricidin contains dextromethorphan, or DXM, which is often used to get high, but is dangerous in large doses and can result in death, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration Web site.
"The way things are going, everything will have to be put behind the counter, it seems," Bonnell said.
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Area grocery stores and pharmacies began restricting the sale of Dramamine by keeping the over-the-counter drug behind service desks in March after the Merrill Police Department investigated a case in which two teenage girls took large doses of the motion sickness medicine to get a hallucinogenic high.
And on Thursday, officers responded to two calls, one at 8:30 a.m. and one at noon, in which two 20-year-olds, who were friends, were taken to the hospital after ingesting at least 32 tablets of Coricidin each, said Lt. Ned Seubert of the Merrill Police Department.
"People have been taking the drugs off of the shelves to get high," he said. "It is unbelievable." Coricidin contains dextromethorphan, or DXM, which is often used to get high, but is dangerous in large doses and can result in death, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration Web site.
"The way things are going, everything will have to be put behind the counter, it seems," Bonnell said.
READ THE ARTICLE : http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/wdhlocal/...215968941.shtml (http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/wdhlocal/281634215968941.shtml)