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Despite the recent media coverage, there's been "no significant change" in the number of emergency department visits from DXM abuse since 1994, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which monitors trends in drug-related emergency department visits and deaths nationwide.
The major difference between abuse of cough and cold medicines from past years is that teens are using the Internet to not only buy DXM in pure powder form, but to learn how to abuse it. Because drinking large volumes of cough syrup causes vomiting, the drug is being extracted from cough syrups and sold on the Internet in a tablet that can be swallowed or a powder that can be snorted. Online dosing calculators even teach abusers how much they'll need to take for their weight to get high.
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