blog.wired.com — A recent article in the Journal of Emergency Medicine tells the story of a 20-year-old kid from Portland, Oregon that extracted the active ingredient, dextromethorphan, from some cough syrup and tried to get high with it. Thanks to the doctors that treated him, their patient did not earn a Darwin Award.
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thesioJun 27, 2007
why extract it, delsum works great
voidJun 28, 2007
Because some people die on coricidin. It contains another drug other than DXM called "chloropheniramine maleate" an antihistamine which reacts very badly with some people, when taken in larger than recommended doses. Theres 4mg of it per tablet, read the active ingredients on the side of the box.Read up on it more, www.dextroverse.org
slymonkJun 28, 2007
My little brother OD'd on DXM he had bought of the Internet. He learned about that stuff on that dextroverse site mentioned above. He had a seizure while he was sleeping and choked on his own vomit. The toxicology report determined it was from the DXM. I obviously don't blame that website cause he was the one doing the drugs, but maybe a few of you might think twice about messing with that stuff. Maybe think about how your mom, dad, sister, or your brother might feel after you die.
rabid_llamaJun 28, 2007
Uh oh, we better ban cough syrup if someone can get hurt using it.
stopthepcJun 29, 2007
Dope, it was a joke. Have you been drinking cough syrup?
mongolaiJun 29, 2007
I just wish the drugstores used to restrict sale of DXM to minors all those years ago. Too many of my friends fried their brains from that s**t. 12 years later and they are still half zombified.Sad s**t.
simplejoe79Jun 29, 2007
ahh what methods "kids" adopt to get a high..
onyxblazeJan 4, 2009
Yea but the Guaifenesin in there makes u puke it up before you get high. plus it can be deadly.
onyxblazeJan 4, 2009
god i could not walk right lol.... i tried to walk right and i kept saying "big steps big steps dont look high"... the whole time and i walked by cops and they just laughed at me... I'm really glad my friend came and held my head while i puked and let me stay at her place for the night lol
onyxblazeJan 4, 2009
bromine is kinda... toxic so yea lol
theseamanJan 4, 2009
Shrooms aren't exactly what I would call "more dangerous." They make your stomach a little sick, but you would have to eat your weight in them to OD.
renerdratSep 18, 2009
This article is retarded! Ok.. It should've been named "the downsides of being retarded". I mean seriously... first this isn't a downside of cough syrup because he was in the hospital for TRYING to extract the dxm and he's obviously retarded if he's trying it that way. You don't even need to extract it anyways.. Every time I've done it I just drink the bottle, or buy the ones in the gel pills. Yeah it's gross. < THAT is the downside of it.
jonnyfucknuggitJan 5, 2010
Well... This is gunna be my first time ever trying Robitussin Cough and Chest Congestion DM Max.. And no i was just reading up on what i should be looking for as to side effects. Bout to down the whole bottle now.