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- acrodev, on 05/05/2008, -3/+27Well at least it is better than crack.
- fury420, on 05/05/2008, -1/+18"Children aged 2 to 5 used the medications most often, but the rate was also high among those younger than 2."
wait, how can children between the ages of 2 - 5 use medication?
Really it should read "Parents gave children aged 2 to 5 the medications most often" as a 3 year old does not make the choice, obtain, and then use any sort of medication... - leontes, on 05/05/2008, -3/+20This is one of the dangers of living in a medically focused culture. Eventually, it will become to norm to medicate unhappiness rather than teaching self-soothing or reinforcing factors that lead to wellness. It's essential to train parents, kids, our society to recognize medical intervention should only be used with clear cause.
- Darkhacker, on 05/05/2008, -3/+18In other news, Animals Close-Up With a Wide-Angle Lens continues to top the charts as the number one children's TV show with high expectations for the new show, Animals Close-Up With a Wide-Angle Lens... Wearing Hats!
- SeaweedWater, on 05/05/2008, -4/+16Those kids must be high all the time.
- Pogojoe, on 05/05/2008, -1/+13In Australia, they just recently made all children's cough medicine prescription only.
- rentmitchum, on 05/05/2008, -1/+13Fun Fact: Psuedoephedrine itself isn't a "cough medicine". It is sometimes combined with "cough medicine" to help alleviate sinus symptoms.
Fun Fact: You don't throw psuedoephedrine tablets in a pot and throw in some other stuff to get meth. There is chemistry that needs to be carried out. You make it sound like the chocolate chips in cookies. It's not like that
Fun fact: You sound like a ***** moron - slvrbullet87, on 05/05/2008, -2/+12Parents cant be expected to actually take care of their kids, they plop them down in front of the TV with McDonalds and when the parent wants to get some sleep they give their kid some NyQuil. Then 3 years down the line they go to a joke of a doctor who diagnoses ADD.
Then the parent doesn't understand when their kid is antisocial or weighs 300 pounds. - arw371, on 05/05/2008, -1/+101 in 10 kids uses cough medicine continuously every week? habitually?
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every kid will use cough medicine once every ten weeks? - jayzer, on 05/05/2008, -1/+8While DXM is not like weed, it's not quite like taking a ton of Benadryl, either. Some people like it, some don't. I liked it.
I don't touch it anymore and it's not exactly the healthiest thing to do with your free time, but it's certainly an experience. - rentmitchum, on 05/05/2008, -0/+7My name is Cesar Milan. I train kids.. I teech people. I am the dog wheesperer.
(I reeched thees keeeeeeeds) - inactive, on 05/05/2008, -0/+6Don't sign your posts, and...
/* You'Re a loseR */ - Rubab, on 05/05/2008, -1/+7i am happy to learn that one percent have flu only..
- Spartycus, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5South Park FTW!
- NorthKorea, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5exactly. "10% of U.S. Kids Using Cough Medicine Every Week" does not equal
"Approximately one in 10 U.S. children uses one or more cough and cold medications during a given week." - itsthemechanic, on 05/05/2008, -3/+8They just all trippin' on DXM.
- ryanhayn, on 05/05/2008, -0/+410% of parents believe taking medicine regularly is part of living a healthy life.
- shawnanigans, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4That's mostly because of the pseudoephedrine though isn't it?
- bedouin, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4You realize DXM is one of the few legal psychedelics out there, right? Most kids are using it just to get buzzed, but at higher dosages it becomes similar to ketamine -- different than shrooms or LSD, but still a psychedelic experience. Used every once in a while can be just as enlightening as any of the former drugs. Psychedelics in general are an experience that people will either love or hate. I am not an advocate of psychedelics for recreational use, but for therapy I believe they have further uses that can be explored.
- idavidtang, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4Definitely, cause cough drops look and taste like candy.
- Terminaltor, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4we all know how it ended, Craig had to have his balls surgically removed. tragic
- jpstanle, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3I read the parent as talking about DXM and antihistamines separately, separately describing their effects. Perhaps he could have used a paragraph break, but it seemed clear enough to me. The 'slipping in and out of waking consciousness' sounded like a pretty apt general description of the effects of dissociative hallucinogens like DXM, and the auditory delirium sounded to me like the effects of DPH.
- cnot3, on 05/05/2008, -1/+4Whats even more alarming is the amount of children that are cheesin' these days.
- bonecones, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3Isn't that just for medicines containing pseudoephedrine? At least I can still get some pure DXM from the local chemist without a pescription.
- breadfred, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3You want to have that checked out by a medical professional.
- ParaSu, on 05/05/2008, -1/+4Noooo, more accurately 1 in 10 kids are making meth during any given week.
- simplistics06, on 05/05/2008, -2/+5coffee for the morning
cough medicine during the day
alcohol in the evening
sleeping pills at night
say no to drugs - apophenic, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3There's nothing "inconclusive" about the research. It was poorly performed research, and the man who originally published the paper later retracted it. DXM itself didn't even cause lesions in rats' brains when it was orally administered (from the article you linked).
- BurningGiraffe, on 05/05/2008, -1/+4This only serves to drive up the price. Bad idea. The fact that parents are systematically drugging their children is terrible, but government can't stop everything parents do that are bad. Sometimes we just have to let parents screw up their children. They've been doing it forever. Government can't solve that.
- Liquidfire3240, on 05/05/2008, -1/+4If your one of the 90% that doesn't use cough medicine put thi....oh nevermind.
- miker2049, on 05/06/2008, -1/+4no DXM.
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/dxm/dxm.shtml - GodIsntReal, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3If you get anti-Anxiety meds don't get Effexor. Trust me.
- jpstanle, on 05/05/2008, -1/+3Now, we know nobody would ever fail to read the article before commenting, but just in case...
This article is not about teens robotripping on DXM. It's about OTC cold and cough medication being used to actually treat colds and coughs in young children, with the highest rates being in the age groups 2-5 and under 2. - NoQuarter, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2Some drugs cause addiction, others cause tolerance but these really are the minority in reality. Ibuprofen and paracetamol cause neither and unless you were still in pain you would experience no adverse effects when stopping them after three days or three years.
The Anxiolytics (benzos) do cause withdrawal when stopped (and so aren't used for more than two weeks). Beta blockers and SSRIs are also used in anxiety and they cause no such problems so more desirable in anxiety. You might get tried on a beta blocker first, they stop your heart racing when you get a bit anxious which apparently helps. - uberdilly, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2ahem, SyZurp
- Radical5, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2Spartans had a good way of solving it.
- fxu1989, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2Stop going off-topic, buddy!
- Adam420, on 05/05/2008, -2/+4That episode of south park with the cough medicine was just on...weird.
- grovest4life, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2Is it just me or did anyone else read teaching self-loathing, i guess I've been digging to much.
- Rendonsmug, on 05/05/2008, -1/+3Anti-histimines are on that list. I personally have had to take anti-histimines almost daily for years because of strong allergies. ~5% doesn't seem like too big a deal to me.
- bigspooon, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2additionally, at least in the state of california, all cough medicines containing pseudoephedrine are kept behind the counter to curb easy access for meth makers. i can't say this for sure, but i'm willing to bet the average parent just grabs the first recognizable bottle of cough medicine on the shelf and purchases it. these bottles don't have pseudoephedrine.
fun fact for shootfast: most of the prescription medicines we use today are derived from "harder" drugs or analogues of "harder" drugs. - Jashobeam5, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2Nope. You have to figure that some kids have very low immune systems and are constantly on cold meds, and some never take them. Some kids are sick an entire winter, while others get only a mild cold. To say 10% of the child population is on cold meds at any given time, is much more accurate than, every child will be on cold meds every ten weeks.
- 0tis, on 05/05/2008, -3/+5I'll digg that. There are better drugs to be toking.
- CiceroLegume, on 05/05/2008, -1/+3This here is true
- jpstanle, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2He's not your buddy, guy!
- 0tis, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2Well, where do you think they get the ideas for these surveys from?
- breadfred, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2I am old enough to remember the unsweetened cough syrup. You wouldn't want it until you were really suffering. Bet you if they brought that stuff back, kids wouldn't be having half as much as now.
- StolenLamp, on 05/05/2008, -1/+3Amen brother.
- doskir, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2if(post.signed)
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//***** you - jpstanle, on 05/05/2008, -1/+3Ritalin, while a powerful stimulant, is not an amphetamine. Adderall is the brand-name you're looking for; it's actually an amphetamine.
Oh, and your link is broken.
If you're gonna go trolling, at least do it right. -
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