Here’s a headline from the Clarion Ledger:
David Magee: Cough syrup ‘drink’ of choice for many at Grove
The premise of the story is that frat guys are into abusing both prescription and over the counter cough syrup (the story reports that consuming large amounts of over-the-counter cough syrup can induce hallucinations).
Asking around a bit, I learn its going on among college age kids, but its everywhere, not anything particularly associated with the Grove. My daughter says it would make more sense to blame rappers 3 Six Mafia and Lil’ Wayne.
Where do they get it? Prescriptions? Drug dealers? Their parents? I took some once, by way of a legal and proper prescription that I think it was called Pannekinetic-something-or-other — and it knocked me for an unforgettable loop (but the coughing stopped, and almost my pulse did, as well) — and I can’t imagine how anything like it would allow even a young and vibrant 19-year-old peak condition college student to keep track of gridiron developments during a football game, or walk across the Grove to attend one.
Something interesting about cough syrup, codeine and dextromethorphan.
About five percent of the population cannot metabolize dextromethorphan very well at all. I am in that five percent. If I take it I feel really crazy and have nightmares. Codeine doesn’t work for me either, since I don’t have the enzyme to break the codeine into morphine in my system. I could drink a bottle of codeine and it would have very little effect; it would just pass through my system.
On the other end are the ultra or rapid metabolizers, again five to seven percent of the population. These people have a lot of the CYP2D6 enzyme in their system and as a result tend to get a “high” from DXM. That’s why for the average person it makes absolutely no sense for someone to get “high” on DXM cough syrup, but for a rapid metabolizer it is a different ball game. These people are more likely to become addicted to pain killers as well.
Just passing this on. If you have taken DXM and hate it, then you shouldn’t take any SSRI’s either, as you likely don’t have the enzyme to break the DXM down and they can be dangerous for you. Clariten and the like won’t work for you either. So a couple of big slugs of Robitussen DM can serve the same purpose as a $500 genetic test in finding out whether you are able to process drugs requiring the CYP2D6 enzyme.
Brazen self-promotion: http://colrebsez.blogspot.com/2011/10/nearly-free-genetic-test-that-just.html
Why can’t they just abuse bourbon, like mature adults?
Whole thing is stupid. Next thing you know they will want to make it mandatory to have a prescription for benadryl.
in our tent it tends toward Makers, Anderson, but in the Grove at large I think it’s not bourbon, it’s Tennessee Sipping Whiskey from Jack Daniels.
Oh, I know, NMC. In Coke, no doubt. Jack Daniels: bourbon with the character chemically deleted.
… My kid is coming up to the game, btw, with his gf and her mom. Bad enough he lived in Oxford while I was in law school; now his lovely/smart gf is Ole Miss-bound, and I guess he will follow.
Where’s the pride? Who wants to go through life as “the guy who got crunk in The Grove on cough syrup”?
Maybe in 8th grade … out in the bayou where no one can see you….
Come on, people.
Wish I’d known, Anderson, I’d have invited them buy my tent.
My contribution on this cold day: Hot mulled apple cider, with rye whiskey as an optional addition. It worked, until they turned on the Christmas lights in the tent at dusk, and then the combination of the heating element for the cider, the tv and dish would trip the generator. But the crowd had gone through a couple of gallons of cider and a fifth and a half of rye by then, so I think it went over.
I think the real story Saturday was cough-syrup abuse in the Miss. State offensive line, not to mention the coaching staff.
Here is the 36 Mafia’s anthem to the syrup: http://youtu.be/lOWKGXpl9E0.