Family Tips

Mass media put great deal of information about medicine abuse, but recent coverage of the dangerous, potentially deadly practice of intentionally overdosing on cough and cold drugs has force parents and educators to worry over and over again.
Medicines containing dextromethorphan are easy to find, available for teens to buy, and perfectly legal. Getting access to the dangerous drug is now as easy as walking into the local drugstore with a few dollars. And because it’s found in over-the-counter medicines and is available for everyone, many teens are naively believing that it be very dangerous.
For the past years teens not only got easy access to it through the Internet, but also learnt on that very Internet how to abuse it. Because drinking large amounts of cough syrup causes retching, the drug is being extracted from cough syrups and sold on the Internet in a tablet that can be swallowed or a powder that can be snorted.