Study Finds Cough Syrup can be Drug Addiction
Drug addictions come in all forms, but the oft made fun of addictions can be the most slippery to get control of. Readers may remember that the FDA recently announced many children are given too much Cough and Cold medicine, which can be detrimental to their health. This caused a lot of supermarkets to place warnings on their shelves and many even removed certain brands of Cough Syrup and medicine from their shelves.
Well, this isn’t the only problem with Cough and Cold Medicine. Newly analyzed data from the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) indicates that way more young people than previously thought have used Cough and Cold medicine to get high. The NSDUH survey found that 3.1 million people between the ages of 12 and 25 have used over the counter cough and cold medicines to get high at least once in their lifetimes.
An overdose of Cough and Cold medicines such as is done by those with drug addictions can induce severe dissociative experiences that are much like an ‘Out-of-Body’ experience. Although non-prescription Cough and Cold medicine is generally quite safe when taken as directed and for medicinal purposes.
One addiction quote at MedicalNewsToday http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/93735.php states that, ‘Females aged 12 to 17 were more likely than their male counterparts to have misused these drugs within the past year (2.3 percent vs. 1.5 percent). But among those aged 18 to 25, more males had misused these drugs in the past year than females (1.8 percent vs. 1.3 percent). Among all persons aged 12 to 25, the rate of past year misuse among whites (2.1 percent) was three times higher than among blacks (0.6 percent) and significantly higher than among Hispanics (1.4 percent).’
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