I have a cold and went out and bought some cough medicine. I got I.D’d without buying the nighttime version. Why would people go to the trouble of using cough medicine to get high in comparison to other drugs? How does it even work?
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Dextromethorphan is similar to PCP and ketamine, all antagonize nmda receptors. In low doses these drugs are similar to alcohol intoxication with a sensory strobing effect, higher doses producing anesthetic effects which can include hallucinations. Cough syrup can have other components like tylenol doxylamine and phenylephrine; all three of which can kill you in overdose.
Some cough syrups contain codeine which is a mild opiate.
And people have started drinking strait promethazine -which is an antipsychotic that causes severe drowsiness.
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