NEWS>> DXM Zine #15 is Out!

The DXM Zine Issue 15 (5 Year Anniversary) is out. Over two-dozen articles and 70 pictures, including charts. Get the latest DXM news, music, reviews, trip reports, products, art, poetry, and more!

DEALS>> DexAlone Offer

At drugstore.com:

Get free, 10-ct. DexAlone ($4.99 value) when you buy a regular DexAlone!

• "Limited to once per order. Offer expires Saturday, March 15, 2003"

The Dextroverse Under Fire

For those of you that tried to visit the page around 12/11 I apologize because our account was deleted. Not to worry, the dextroverse is back up and running. Since everyone wants to know whats going on, Im just going to post it here for everyone to read:

• www.dextroverse.org was down around early 12/11/02, with the default "Plesk" page shown, like the account has been reset. I try to log into the ftp and I get an incorrect name/password error. So I email my admin asking whats up.

NEWS>> South Beach Beverage Recalls Drinks ( 12/13/02 )

"South Beach Beverage Company has announced the voluntary recall of as many as 5,678 cases of SoBe Green Tea and 1,458 cases of SoBe Energy due to the accidental presence of dextromethorphan a substance commonly found in over-the-counter cold and cough medications.

If consumed in large quantities, the substance may cause lightheadedness, nausea or other reversible symptoms. If consumed with certain medications, the affected beverages may cause health risks.

The potentially affected packages have been distributed primarily to convenience stores and other retail outlets in parts of 11 states: California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.

The only packages that may be affected are 20-ounce glass bottles of SoBe Green Tea with the production code SEP2203 XXXXFG09162A3, and 20-ounce glass bottles of SoBe Energy with the production code SEP2203 XXXXFG09172B3. Consumers can call 1-800-588-0548 to replace these products. "

NEWS>> Cough syrup maker Buckley's sells out to Novartis

"Buckley Ltd., maker of the Buckley's Mixture cough medicine the company proudly admits "tastes awful", has been sold to pharmaceutical giant Novartis"

NEWS>> DXM Could Aid In Future Eye Implants

"... he is working with molecular designers to come up with cages that also act as neuroprotectants, because high doses of glutamate and other neurotransmitters such as gamma-aminobutyric acid and glycine can damage nerves. One candidate is dextromethorphan hydrobromide, the main ingredient in many over-the-counter cough syrups. The drug can help attenuate toxic glutamate overstimulation..."

NEWS>> Coricidin On the Local News ( 11/12/02 )

WPEC News 12, FL :
"Experts are calling coricidin the next ecstacy and a poor man's LSD. A 17-year-old boy who chose not to be identified says he was taking triple C every other day. Sometimes 40 pills at a time.

'I have never had anything else like it between coke, pot, alcohol, acid, never had anything like Coricidin'."

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Channel 5 News - Des Moines, IA :
"The warning comes after emergency crews responded to drug overdose calls twice in as many days at the same house. The first call came to a metro house Friday afternoon. Rescue crews took four people between the ages of seventeen and twenty to the hospital. Police say they all took about forty pills each of Coricidin, which is a cough medicine, and marijuana. Rescue crews were called there again Saturday night, when one of the boys overdosed again."

NEWS>> Two Hospitalizations From DXM ( 10/17/02 )

"Two Butler Area School District students have been released from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh after taking capsules containing a concentration of a cough suppresant.

The student who provided the capsules containing dextromethorphan, or DXM, was taken into custody and charged in Butler county juvenile court with aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person, police said. The suspect's name is not being released because of his age."

"Hays said police in his department have heard of DXM, but this is the first time the department has handled a case involving it.

Hays said DXM is not a controlled substance, which is why the suspect is not facing any drug charges."

NEWS>> Pharmacies Lock Up Cold Remedy ( 10/6/02 )

"Some Indiana pharmacies have taken a popular cold remedy off the shelves and placed it behind the counter or inside locked cabinets after authorities warned the medication is being abused.

Police are concerned that Coricidin HBP Cold and Cough is becoming popular as a recreational drug, particularly among teens."

NEWS>> DXM Popsicles! ( 10/6/02 )

"Each Benylin(x) DM Medicated Freezer Pop contains 7.5 milligrams of the cough suppressant dextromethorphan. Sold in boxes of eight and available in grape and orange flavours, the individual cough pops come wrapped in a tear resistant plastic packaging that must be opened with scissors and is clearly marked as medicine. Boxes should be available in drug stores this month."

NEWS>> Assault and Burglary on Coricidin ( 9/30/02 )

"Earlier in the night, the friend, John Pecoreno, 18, fed him a dozen tablets of Coricidin Cough & Cold to clear up a lingering cough. The reaction was swift.

Cahill, who family and friends said has a lifelong history of mental illness, thought he was being poisoned.

In what likely was a drug-induced psychotic breakdown, Cahill clawed at his face, howled, rolled on the ground, drank milk and bolted from the Tuckerton house before help could arrive around 4:30 a.m. He ran and desperately beat on doors, seeking help he never received.

Instead, his run ended a little more than a mile away, when an off-duty security guard, likely in fear of his own life, shot him. Eric Howey also killed his own mother by mistake with the .40-caliber handgun he was licensed to possess"

NEWS>> "Danger in the medicine Cabinet" ( 9/2/02 )

"Teens generally get high from cough syrup because of its easy accessibility in medicine cabinets and along pharmacy aisles. Falkowski's report details instances of some students for about $5 purchasing pills containing DXM powder that had been extracted from cough syrup."

NEWS>> Investigating death of two kids ( 9/9/02 )

"The children died in their Aurora home Aug. 8 some time after their father tucked them in for a nap. Police believe an overdose of cough syrup - specifically the active chemical dextromethorphan - is the leading explanation for the children's deaths, sources familiar with the investigation said."

>>Dr. Shulgin Article in "Wired" - Sept. 2002<<

"Professor X" by Ethan Brown, Wired Magazine September 2002

"Alexander Shulgin made millions for Dow Chemical. Then he synthesized MDMA, realized his best test subject was himself, and became the godfather of Generation Ecstacy."

"Now he's back inside his private lab, running a new batch of psychedelic compounds through his chromatograph."

NEWS>> Disappointing Trial Data ( 6/24/02 )

'Shares of Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. (ENDP) slumped Monday after the company said late-stage test results from its morphine drug combination MorphiDex were "disappointing."'

"Endo said the primary goal of the study was to demonstrate that the average daily dose of morphine needed for pain control when given in combination with receptor antagonist dextromethorphan is less than the dose needed with morphine alone."

>>Meditation for Dexers<<

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NEWS>>Cough syrup sales might reveal anthrax outbreak!

Monitoring the sales of common drugs like aspirin or cough syrup might tell authorities when an anthrax attack is in progress, say US scientists.

     >>Government LSD Experimentation Clips<<

Armor for the Inner Man

Space Cadet

OLD NEWS>> Man On DXM Shot By Police ( 7/26/98 )

New Zealand:

A 20 year old was shot three times after the alleged abduction of a woman from her own home (he lived).

It was later found that the man was on DXM. It was the first time the National Drug Intelligence Bureau has heard of DXM abuse in New Zealand. Ministry of Health Senior Advisor Dr Bob Boyd says health officials, Police and Customs are now working to find out where it came from.

OPINION>> Fear and Loathing in Afghanistan?

Johnny Depp's Solution for terrorism:

"They should have saturated Afghanistan with liquid LSD & got everybody goofed out of their minds" "Then they should have sent the military dressed as Teletubbies. They would have cleared right out. Bin Laden would have been in a blonde wig & eight-inch-heels, singing, 'These Boots Are Made for Walking'."

- From Rolling Stone, page 12 - March 28

Christina Ricci a Dexer??

October 31, 2000
"It was OK when she wasn't drunk on the set. I think she's an alcoholic -- it was either that, or she was on cough syrup the whole time," Gallo allegedly said about Ricci.

OLD NEWS>> Good News for Idaho potheads

In January a 3 judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th circuit US Court of Appeals ruled that marijuana users can legally drive in Idaho as long as they can pass a field sobriety test.

- From High Times, page 12 - May 2002

NEWS>> Boy Kills Dog While on DXM ( 3/13/02 )

Ever since the bloody parts of a dog were found in Romulus High School last October, police and school authorities have been keeping an eye on a 16-year-old boy whose writings and drawings were disturbing. "..."I got high off cough medicine and weed," the boy wrote in his statement to police.

NEWS>> Latest designer drug - Foxy - found in Norfolk ( 3/15/02 )

Three men were arrested this week on federal charges of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute the drug. The men also were accused of distributing another new designer drug, AMT. Foxy, also known as ``Foxy Methoxy,'' and AMT are hallucinogens closely associated with Ecstasy, another designer or ``club'' drug that has been around for more than a decade.

OLDER NEWS>> Agent Lemon Extraction without the Extraction

Three Allen Hall residents found themselves admitted into the hospital Saturday morning after drinking a mixture of Robitussin cough syrup, ammonia and lighter fluid.

NEWS>> Two males arrested on retail theft charges ( 3/16/02 )

A 21-year-old man and 17-year-old male juvenile were arrested on charges of retail theft and possession of cocaine Thursday night following an incident at Wal-Mart, U.S. 1 South, the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office said.

Wal-Mart security personnel saw them two put bottles of non-prescription medicine and a box of condoms in the front of their pants, a deputy's report said.

NEWS>> New, Legal Plant Hallucinogen Moves To Market ( 3/11/02 )

"Internet sites around the world hawk the herb as 'legal ecstasy,' boast of its wild popularity on the streets of New York's Greenwich Village and encourage would-be buyers to experience a Salvia trip before authorities declare it illegal." - article thinking it just discovered salvia.

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NEWS>> Raver Madness ( 3/12/02 )

' Diaz moves on to a bottle of Robitussin, describing how thousands of kids are now chugging entire bottles of cough syrup when they're short the $25 needed for a hit of Ecstasy. "It has MDA in it," he says -- falsely -- as a woman looks on with a horrified expression. He taps the bottle's label: "See, cherry flavor. It tastes like candy. They like that." '

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NEWS>> Raid a house, kick a dog, plug a suspect ( 2/22/02 )

According to the suit, "black-masked, black-helmeted men brandishing automatic weapons and wearing all-black uniforms with no insignias suddenly burst into the house unannounced, kicked the family's dog across the floor, ordered the entire family to 'get on the [expletive] floor,' held them at gunpoint, searched the house, found no drugs or contraband, but nevertheless carted off the family's two sons, Dave and Marcos, and imprisoned them illegally and without charges."

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     NEWS>> Coricidin ( 2/27/02 )

News report all about coricidin, and DXM.

Real Media Stream>>

    NEWS>> Pills latest drug buzz ( 2/27/02 )

Article all about coricidin

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    NEWS>> Drug traffickers' Internet use rises ( 2/27/02 )

Report says they are making deals, tracking cargo, sharing recipes on the net...

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    NEWS>>Anti-War on Drugs newspaper ads ( 2/26/02 )

The Libertarian Party has launched a provocative advertising campaign that accuses Drug Czar John Walters and other pro-War on Drugs politicians of financially aiding terrorism.
The full-page ads, a parody of an ongoing Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) advertising campaign, appear Tuesday in USA Today and the Washington Times.

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    NEWS>> Medicine sale limits explored ( 2/23/02 )

Methamphetamine makers would have a little harder time acquiring a key ingredient for the illegal drug under a bill considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee. (this would allow them to limit sales of pseudoephedrine products and deny its sale if they supects its for drug use. Wonder how long it would take for it to apply to dxm also?)

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Help tell the truth about the War on Drugs and terrorism!

Help the Libertarian Party post an ad in the USA Today and Washington Times that tells everyone that the War on Drugs CAUSES the very problem those ads complain about.

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    NEWS>>6 AU Students Charged in Drug Bust ( 2/22/02 )

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A shy seventh-grader's hotly disputed medical marijuana science project, dubbed "Mary Jane for Pain," was exhibited at a science fair, but without the pot-laced products that officials refused to allow.

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A great story on the JLF raid, very indepth. Talks about the DEA's involvement and how they were watching them, ect...

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NEWS>> Cough Syrup Effectiveness Questioned ( 2/08/02 )

Syrup Found To Be As Effective As Placebo? New studies report that over-the-counter cough syrups may be a waste of money. (I think not)

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    NEWS>> The Government's Terror Tactics in Commercials

 "The government blames drug users for the violence created by its disastrous policies." This is a good write-up on the insamely over-exaggerated anti-drug commercials aired during the superbowl, by the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Keep in mind the airtime for these were bought with money they took out of your paycheck, without asking you about it.

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NEWS>> Research shows Marijuana causes depression ( 2/06/02 )

Melbourne researchers say they have found the strongest evidence yet that heavy marijuana smoking causes depression, especially in young women.

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    NEWS>> Robitussin's "Dr. Mom" Of the Year Contest

Tell them about how you, your mom, or a caregiver you know helps keep the family healthy during the cough and cold season. The caregiver you nominate could win $10,000 and also appear in a Robitussin ad. (Bwhahahaha)

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    NEWS>> Article on the JLF Raid

Indiana business raided by the DEA for selling products that aren't illegal.

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NEWS>> Faulty arrest means man may go free in drugs-by-mail case ( 1/28/02 )

The criminal case against an Athens man accused of possessing more than 21 pounds of marijuana in his home was put in jeopardy last Thursday when questions about how the man was arrested were raised in a court hearing.

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NEWS>> U.S. Agents Put Focus on Internet Drug Buys! ( 1/8/02 )

A $100 Internet purchase that netted 50 grams of a legal substance found in over-the-counter cough medicines has left federal authorities scrambling to find out how much of the drug and others are being marketed by computer to teenagers and others. (Great! Fucking Great! Just what we need....)

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NEWS>> Cover-up claimed as ecstasy use 'soars to 2m pills a week' ( 1/27/02 )

Two million ecstasy pills a week are taken in Britain, four times more than the Government has admitted publicly, warns a confidential intelligence report seen by The Observer.

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    NEWS>>State looks elsewhere to destroy seized drugs ( 1/24/02 )

State officials are looking for ways to help police agencies dispose of illegal street drugs that can no longer be burned in municipal incinerators.

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NEWS>> Raided house yields 523 pot plants ( 1/24/02 )

Police seized hundreds of marijuana plants from a Cambridge home yesterday during the second raid in the same upscale neighbourhood this week.

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NEWS>>Monkey cocaine study sheds light on addiction ( 1/23/02 )

Social standing -- being dominant or subordinate -- plays a vital role in determining susceptibility to drug use, scientists said on Tuesday in a study using monkeys that may shed light on human addictions.

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NEWS>> Court awards $400,000 to pot smuggler ( 1/20/02 )

The government has been ordered to pay $400,000 to a convicted marijuana smuggler because it didn't properly notify him it had seized the boat he used for smuggling.

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NEWS>> Ton of marijuana confiscated in Venezuela ( 1/18/02 )

National Guardsmen confiscated 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms) of marijuana in western Venezuela on Friday.

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NEWS>>U.S. reports large increase in heroin seizures ( 1/16/02 )

Colombian heroin traffickers are making larger shipments to the United States and have gone far beyond their old tactic of having couriers swallow drug-filled balloons.

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NEWS>>Police could act on Prince Harry ( 1/15/02 )

British police have refused to rule out taking action against Prince Harry over his cannabis smoking and underage drinking.

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NEWS>>Golden Triangle filling Afghan opium shortfall ( 1/9/02 )

Opium growing in Southeast Asia's infamous Golden Triangle area has increased sharply as the price of the drug has doubled because of falling production in Afghanistan.

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