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drdªv€
12-09-2006, 09:26 AM
from Arm:
Here's some sensationalist, anti-dxm BS for you to post in the DXM news section.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/services/site/...tered.intercept (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/services/site/premium/access-registered.intercept)

moonlord
12-09-2006, 03:23 PM
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drdªv€
12-09-2006, 03:46 PM
Originally posted by moonlord@Dec 9 2006, 01:23 PM
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sorry for the linkage error, I was unaware I was registered or thet it was required :/

moonlord
12-09-2006, 05:16 PM
look at the link u gave its kinda obvious lol if u clicked it! :crazy:

Eloivore
12-09-2006, 07:34 PM
*cough* bugmenot *cough*

Eloivore
12-09-2006, 07:38 PM
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/healt...1,3179438.story (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/health/la-sci-robotripping5dec05,1,3179438.story)


Teenagers' use of over-the-counter cold and cough medicines to get a cheap high — a practice known as "robotripping" — is rising 50% a year and becoming one of the fastest-growing drug abuse (Recent news) problems in California and around the country, according to a study released Monday.

Since 1999, teen abuse of Coricidin pills, Robitussin syrup and other common medications has risen 10-fold, data from the California Poison Control System show. The widely available and inexpensive medicines are growing in popularity while use of illegal drugs such as Ecstasy, LSD and the date rape drug GHB have dropped, according to the report.

"Hey, Mom and Dad, pay attention," said Marilyn MacDougall, executive director of the Orange County Sheriff Department's drug abuse prevention program. "Over-the-counter medicines are the upcoming way your kids are going to abuse drugs."

The cold remedies are valued for an ingredient called dextromethorphan, which can cause hallucinations and out-of-body experiences. In extreme cases, like that of 16-year-old Anaheim student Lucia Martino, they can cause death. The drug, known by kids as DXM or Dex, was first abused in the 1960s when it was in a cough medicine called Romilar, which was withdrawn from the market in 1973.

Health officials spotted a revival in the late 1990s. About two-thirds of abusers now take Coricidin HBP Cough & Cold, whose candy-red tablets are nicknamed CCC, triple C and skittles. Robotripping takes its name from Robitussin, the second most abused cold medicine.

A study in May by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America estimated that 2.4 million teens — about 1 in 10 — got high on cough medicines in 2005. That puts it on a par with cocaine and slightly above methamphetamine.

California school administrators are learning of the craze the hard way. In El Dorado, a community outside of Sacramento noted for its apple orchards and Christmas tree farms, seven high school students were rushed to the emergency room in October after taking Coricidin. The Union Mine High School students had purchased several boxes at a dollar store and swallowed five to eight tablets each during their morning snack time.

Administrators found out after one student started vomiting in class.

"This is new to us — it caught a lot of people by surprise," said Principal Carl Fickle. "It didn't catch the kids by surprise."

The latest study, published in the December issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, found that the growth of dextromethorphan abuse is being driven by children ages 9 to 17.

Abuse is most common among 15- and 16-year-olds, the study found. The number of 12- and 13-year-olds using the drug exceeds the number of 18-year-olds, indicating that it is popular in middle schools as well as high schools, according to senior author Ilene B. Anderson, a toxicology management specialist at the California Poison Control System.

"I did not expect 12-year-olds to be abusing it," Anderson said.

The study was based on a review of 1,382 calls made to the California Poison Control Center over a six-year period involving cases of dextromethorphan exposure. Those calls were generally made in emergency situations, usually by physicians treating overdose patients in hospitals. They represent only a fraction of overall drug use, Anderson said.

"If someone is abusing dextro and gets a high, they don't call us," she said. "I think it is grossly underreported."

Of the cases reported to the state poison control center, seven — amounting to 0.5% of the total — were life-threatening. None resulted in death, according to the study. The number of deaths nationwide is unknown.

The researchers compared the California findings with general statistics from the American Assn. of Poison Control Centers and the Drug Abuse Warning Network and found that the trends here are in line with the rest of the country.

Dextromethorphan appeals to teens because it "is easily and legally available in most pharmacies and large grocery stores," Anderson said. "It's relatively inexpensive — in many cases, one package can cause hallucinations."

Websites offer testimonials about the buzz the drug provides. Some users describe it as "slightly intoxicating," though others compare their experiences with the hallucinatory effects of ketamine or PCP.

Dextromethorphan users can consult online calculators — where they enter their weight, brand of medicine and "plateau" of high they want to achieve — to determine how big a dose to take.

And because the cough remedies look innocuous, Anderson said, "you can have a package, and your parents would never even suspect it, compared to a little white bag of powder, which certainly would cause a red flag to go up."

When taken in large quantities, dextromethorphan can make the heart race and blood pressure rise. Some users become agitated and others lethargic, confused, dizzy or act as if they are inebriated. Life-threatening side-effects include seizures and elevated body temperature, Anderson said.

Users can also have adverse reactions from overdosing on other ingredients in the cold remedies. High quantities of pseudoephedrine and antihistamines, for example, can cause irregular heart beats, high blood pressure and seizures, Anderson said.

"The one that scares me the most is acetaminophen [the medicine in Tylenol] because it can cause liver failure," she said.

State lawmakers in California and elsewhere have tried to ban sales to minors of the hundreds of products that contain dextromethorphan, but those efforts have so far failed. Some drug stores, including Walgreens, Rite Aid and Wal-Mart, have voluntarily restricted access to customers younger than 18.

U.S. consumers spent about $4.5 billion on cold and cough remedies last year, according to the Consumer Healthcare Products Assn., a trade group representing manufacturers of over-the-counter medicines. The group is pushing federal legislation to ban online sales of pure dextromethorphan in powdered form and is also working to shut down websites promoting the drug's recreational use, President Linda Suydam said.

Federal legislation that would restrict the sale of dextromethorphan powder to researchers, drug makers and other legitimate users is expected to be voted on this week by the House of Representatives. The legislative effort was prompted by the overdose deaths last year of five teens in Florida, Washington and Virginia.

Teens are continuing to die. One was Lucia Martino, a junior at Canyon High School in Anaheim.

In September, the gregarious soccer player swallowed 20 Coricidin pills in pursuit of a cheap high while the rest of her family slept. Her mother found her vomiting the next morning and took her to the emergency room.

Doctors there were baffled by her malfunctioning liver and struggled to pinpoint the cause. Four days later, after Lucia had fallen into a coma, a friend pulled a nurse aside and told her about the pills.

It was too late. She died less than a day later, on Sept. 17. At the funeral, her parents left the casket open so the hundreds of teens in attendance could see how the pills had swelled Lucia's athletic, 125-pound frame to a bloated 170 pounds.

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Abuse of over-the-counter cold and cough medicines by teens is rising 50% a year, according to the California Poison Control System. A separate survey of 7th to 12th graders found that one in 10 had used medicines containing dextromethorphan to get high.

Types of drugs teenagers have tried

Percent of those surveyed

Marijuana: 37%

Inhalants: 20%

Prescription medicine*: 19%

Cough medicine: 10%

Cocaine/crack: 10%

Methamphetamine: 8%

Ecstasy: 8%

LSD: 6%

Heroin: 5%

Ketamine: 4%

GHB: 4%

*That a doctor did not prescribe for them

moonlord
12-10-2006, 01:01 AM
yea i knew about bugmenot.. I had posted that link previously that u did to that story but mine got deleted

Demoriel
12-11-2006, 01:13 PM
That's the exact same article I posted the other day, it was in the LA times 3 or 4 days ago.

Maabus
12-13-2006, 02:16 PM
long term dxm use tends to destroy that which spawned from the strongest impulse in you to BE the devil. Just be. I live according to myself, the eternal recurrenence of life and death! :flame: :flame: :flame: :flame: :flame:



:chug: :brickwall: :pr0zac: :thumbsup:

mono
12-13-2006, 03:23 PM
I'm watching with great interest, how Wyeth and legislators are responding to this situation of cough syrup abuse which is becoming more and more apparent to the general public.

I can't help but gawk at the fact that pharmaceutical corporate lobbyist power-dollars are causing legislators to look the other way.

Then again, alcohol causes car accidents, broken families, spousal abuse, rape, incest, death, cirrhosis and that's still legal.

Hell, DXM just causes intense disassociation and really bad nausea.

Of course, beneath all of this is the totally idiotic mentality that people should be controlled when it comes to putting substances in their bodies.

:nitin:

AdultSWIM
12-21-2006, 12:32 PM
I think that DXM's days are numbered... Our free and legal use of this drug will be made illicit once the hype-wagon of the "War on Drugs" and Moms of America get onboard. This reminds me of how they banned Pseudoephedrine from OTC sales because of the assholes cooking meth with it and are now pushing an ineffective replacement instead (ahem, Phenylephrine)



Link to story about ineffectiveness of phenylephrine as decongestant (http://starbulletin.com/2006/11/29/editorial/editorial01.html)

I fear the good times may be over. What will it take for an honest guy to get a buzz without breaking the law?

Thurgood
12-23-2006, 03:14 AM
Originally posted by billvmc2000@Dec 21 2006, 11:32 AM
I fear the good times may be over. What will it take for an honest guy to get a buzz without breaking the law?
The good days were over a long time ago in 1939 when the government illegalized THC :shake:

Bhikku
12-23-2006, 03:24 AM
well the article did say.. ahem

"Of the cases reported to the state poison control center, seven — amounting to 0.5% of the total — were life-threatening. None resulted in death, according to the study. The number of deaths nationwide is unknown."

im pretty sure there have been more deaths caused by choking on a good steak, or getting struck by lightning or some shit. i mean those are some dick-shrinking stats. :P

JimiHawK*
12-23-2006, 10:16 PM
Hrmm, its concerning that the most popular DXM medicines for abuse are Coricidins :O

careless223
12-24-2006, 01:34 AM
Time to move to Canada.

Opeth
12-25-2006, 05:03 PM
Originally posted by careless223@Dec 24 2006, 12:34 AM
Time to move to Canada.
Canada is like the puppet on Americas left hand.

As soon as it's made illegal there, us up North will probabely soon follow suit.

Fucking government >.<

nafrihs
01-01-2007, 11:20 PM
Hahahaha.... here's a snapshot of what I got when I logged in via bugmenot and searched the site for "dextromethorphan"...

http://users.adelphia.net/~shirfan/delsym.jpg

mono
01-01-2007, 11:31 PM
^^

That is classic...sometimes I think cosmic reciprocity is hilarious :)

jaytown
01-03-2007, 02:10 PM
I think the goverment is still too busy fighting meth, to be concerned about dxm.
The goverment doesn't want drug trafficers to have a new drug to sell(dxm). There already banking off of meth when they restricted peudoephrine. The hillbilly's have a hard enough time getting sudophrine to make meth with. The mexican trafficers already filled in that gap. :(

DXM User
01-07-2007, 01:23 PM
Of the cases reported to the state poison control center, seven — amounting to 0.5% of the total — were life-threatening. None resulted in death, according to the study. The number of deaths nationwide is unknown.
Then where's the story?


Types of drugs teenagers have tried

Percent of those surveyed

Marijuana: 37%
Inhalants: 20%
Prescription medicine*: 19%
Cough medicine: 10%
Cocaine/crack: 10%
Methamphetamine: 8%
Ecstasy: 8%
LSD: 6%
Heroin: 5%
Ketamine: 4%
GHB: 4%
Where's alcohol?
I took the liberty of looking up this;

53 percent of 12th graders reported drinking alcohol during the prior month
53% in the last MONTH!? I know for a fact that not all of that 37% who try pot come back, but 53%? And MARIJUANA is the problem? Hahahaha I think it's pathetic how people rationalize their idiocy.

kate
01-07-2007, 04:26 PM
Several control group studies by a few non-medical professionals has started revealing that long term DMX use causes homosexuality.

:chug:

strange_r
01-07-2007, 04:43 PM
Originally posted by nig@Jan 7 2007, 03:26 PM
Several control group studies by a few non-medical professionals has started revealing that long term DMX use causes homosexuality.

:chug:
DMX is a big, sexy black man so....

brollie
01-12-2007, 02:04 AM
Types of drugs teenagers have tried

Percent of those surveyed

Cough medicine: 10%

So... only 10% of teens have ever used cough medicine? :eh:

I feel bad for the other 90% who were forced to put up with their nagging cold induced coughs.