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 motaman
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 Seven sick from cough drug 
#6161136 - 10/12/06 05:36 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/37381.html
Seven sick from cough drug
Union Mine High hit by apparent overdose of common medicine.
By Crystal Carreon and Christina Jewett - Bee Staff Writers
Published 12:00 am PDT Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Seven El Dorado County high school students were taken to a hospital Tuesday after apparently overdosing on a common cold medication to get high, a trend that puts authorities on alert and tests the limits of the law.
"It's a reminder of how serious all chemicals are," said Carl Fickle, principal at Union Mine High School in El Dorado, where the medical calls occurred. "Something we perceive as harmless, such as cold medications, can have serious consequences."
Ambulances arrived at the Koki Lane campus shortly before 11 a.m. when it was discovered that a group of students -- one boy and six girls -- had downed several gel caps of a generic version of Coricidin in a restroom earlier in the day, said Lt. Kevin House, spokesman for the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department.
Several students had complained of nausea and feeling high, House said. One student vomited outside a classroom. Another student, who had not ingested the drug, was taken to the hospital as a precaution.
By Tuesday afternoon, all of the students had been treated and released from Marshall Medical Center in Placerville. Their identities were not made public. Authorities said it is unclear if any criminal citations would be issued against the girl who brought the cold medication to school.
But the case quickly became a textbook eye-opener.
"From the law enforcement standpoint, it made us become more aware," said House, who could not recall any previous accounts of youths abusing cold medication.
Fickle met with parents and explained what had happened at the school.
"It's pretty rare," Fickle said of his students abusing drugs. "It's just another version of alcohol or drugs that occasionally find their way to our campus."
Coricidin, usually marketed as a cold medication for people with hypertension, contains dextromethorphan, or DXM, a cough suppressant commonly found in other over-the-counter drugs. If abused, the drug can trigger hallucinations, similar to those of a PCP high, that can cause users to act bizarrely, said Sgt. Helena Williams, who oversees drug recognition education for the California Highway Patrol.
"It's very dangerous, depending on level of influence," she said. "If you get to a state ... like PCP, then you don't know what you're doing. You can become injured, can injure others or be violated in any way."
Williams said the CHP has recently launched a program aimed at training educators to recognize students' abuse of the cold medicine, as well as other drugs. She said teenagers have been known to take 16 to 20 gel capsules of Coricidin, or drink an entire bottle of Robitussin, which also contains the active ingredient DXM, to get high.
The abuse appears to be growing. The Sacramento Division of the California Poison Control System reported a blip in the medication's abuse about two years ago. Across the country, teenagers misusing DXM doubled from 2000 to 2003, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers. And a 2005 survey of more than 7,000 teenagers found that one in 11 had abused over-the-counter cough medicines containing DXM, according to the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, which conducted the survey.
Sacramento police and sheriff's officials reported no significant problems with the medication, though.
Williams and other authorities said they were concerned about the seemingly growing trend to post drug exploits online, through Internet blogs and other popular sites such as MySpace.com.
"On the information highway called the Internet, kids are exchanging new ways of using drugs we would not conceive of as adults," she said.
House said detectives will begin looking into whether any Internet postings affected what happened on the Union Mine campus. He said the school's resources officer had mentioned the popularity of the Web to exchange information about abusing cold medication, but he didn't know if it played a role in Tuesday's incident.
He said he also was unsure what laws might have been broken by the student who brought the cold medication to school.
Over the years, there have been attempts to prohibit the sale of drugs containing DXM to minors, but none has been successful.
A bill that would have regulated the sale of such medications stalled this year in the California Senate. The bill, by Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, would have made it an infraction to sell medicine containing DXM to a minor.
The bill would have required clerks to check the identification of customers buying the medicine.
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Seuss
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Re: Seven sick from cough drug [Re: motaman]
#6161191 - 10/12/06 06:24 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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> The bill, by Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, would have made it an infraction to sell medicine containing DXM to a minor.
... and how many of the minors hooked on cough syrup are puchasing it as opposed to shoplifting it. 
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chemiKalz
u r tripp0r?
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Re: Seven sick from cough drug [Re: Seuss]
#6161551 - 10/12/06 09:12 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Kids will get fucked up what ever way they can, its human instinct. 
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Mitchnast
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Re: Seven sick from cough drug [Re: chemiKalz]
#6161580 - 10/12/06 09:24 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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notice the police never mentioned the other medical ingredients. just dumped all the blame on DXM.
and notice how they said it wasnt any sort of real problem..... this is because the drug companies are run by knife-encrusted credit-dragons with hairtrigger remote detinators attached to every cop gonad.
thats the truth! I castrated a cop 
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daftpunk
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Re: Seven sick from cough drug [Re: Mitchnast]
#6226343 - 10/30/06 10:41 AM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Damn....I taught there for a while. Kids in this area are all about Meth..that shit SUCKS...check out the site I made on that drug...www.mitchtv.net
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dedjam
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Re: Seven sick from cough drug [Re: daftpunk]
#6226719 - 10/30/06 12:46 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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I was talking to a friend who is manager at one of the walmarts in town. You would be amazed at what they have to see ID for to purchase now days because it MAY be possible to get high off of it. He was going through the list and I was thinking "damn, how do you get high off of that"...which is what every teen is going to be thinking when they find out you have to show ID to get it.
Anyways, he was talking about how often cough syrup, cold meds, white out, and markers are now stollen from his store because underage kids are going to steal it since they cant buy it without ID.
In other words, all we are doing is creating more criminals, Thats all the drug war does, create criminals and waste money.
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