Tuesday, June 01, 2004

Teens use 'legal' cold medicine to get high | csmonitor.com

Teens use 'legal' cold medicine to get high | csmonitor.com: "Over the past several years, drug counselors around the country have noticed a significant hike in the abuse of the cough suppressant dextromethorphan (DXM). Poison-control centers have also reported a doubling of the number of calls since 2001. But because it's a legal drug, it's not tracked by any of the major groups that follow teen drug use. So it's difficult to gauge how just how widespread the problem is."