It’s just cough syrup, right? You just need a small high, an opportunity to get through the upcoming math test or your next job interview.
But is it just….?
These facts may just change your mind:
- Just because cough syrup is easy to obtain doesn’t mean it isn’t harmful. Mixed with soda or marijuana cigarettes, the danger only increases.
- Mixing cough syrups with antidepressants or allergy medicines can bring death.
- Children can and do get addicted. Know what’s in your medicine cabinet; be aware that a child constantly asking for cough medicine because of a “cold” may just want the cough syrup for a little high.
- It isn’t the alcohol that’s giving you the high, it’s the drugs codeine and promethazine. Both act as a cough suppressant, but when taken in a large amount gives the user an unnatural high.
- Cough syrup isn’t easy to give up once begun and you still have to go through detox.
- Cheap doesn’t mean harmless and you can get addicted to cough syrup after only one use.
- Withdrawal of cough syrup means anxiety, diarrhea, pain, nausea and more. The experience feels like a heroin withdrawal.
If you’re addicted to cough syrup, you’ll know it by your intensive desire to use it without the least caveat of being sick. The syrup will “make your day” or give you that “high” to get you through it. Think of it as a small “sin,” but, in the long run, you’ll need to know that you may be just as addicted as the guy shooting up.
