subject: Over The Counter, And Into Your Living Room [print this page] With many traditional methods gone the obstacles to acquiring prescription medication are low and there are easier to obtain over-the-counter drugs available on any drug store shelf. Cough or Cold Syrups and tablets provide the easiest and most troublesome route to addiction because once gone they are easily replaced in any medicine cabinet or flu kit. Most importantly it can travel anywhere inconspicuously.
The appeal of over the counter and prescription drugs in teens and adults obviously involves the euphoria all addicts seek, but the added stimulus of hallucinations and muscular detachment due to sedation. Skittles is one of the popular street terms used when describing pill form usage in cold medicines, while Robo-tripping is just one of the terms used for syrup forms. Users typically spin a bottle of Robitussin on a string, simulating a centrifuge and are thus able to extract the drugs that give the medicine its potency by forcing them to rise to the top of the bottle. When drinking, users will typically be taking a highly concentrated dosage of the bottle of syrupy cold medicine.
Despite years using an array of drugs and medical history of abuse, many doctors do not see the signs of addiction to certain medication and continue prescribing them without fail. The final method of detection is most commonly the crash an addict will suffer throughout their addiction. Sooner or later the body will remind the brain that sleep, hygiene, proper food and general abstinence is needed. The only way the body and the brain can or will communicate is cause and effect; the body rebels against the brains activity, in the case of crashing it can be anything from sleeping for days and finally feeling rested and recouped enough to begin feeding the addiction again to basic overdose and possible death.
