I'm addicted to DXM and

Question

DXM is a chemical in cough medicine that gets you high. The only cough medicine you can take that works [others have too much acetominophen] is coricidin cough&cold or triple c's. you have to take 8-24 of them. The high is like LSD & xanex with a headache. My eyes bug out and i look ugly and i have a frown on my face the whole time. I dont know where am and all my feeling are intensified by 100, im really confused its unexplainable. I took 24 3 days ago and 24 3 days before that and i just now almost came down. My mom thought i was drunk. I've stolen all of the pills at the stores around my house [im 16 and dont have a liscence yet] when i took them last i didnt want to [well i really did but i tried not to] but my boyfriend took them, i was crying begging him not to but he did [we were still high] and so i took some because i was jealous. I dont think im addicted, I know about addiction just like the rest of the world but this doesnt feel like it, i dont have any symptoms except i have a bad cold and cant sleep that well, andi heardf voices last night. I know its going to kill me or put holes in my brain, i dont even think i like it but i cant stop thinkning about it.

Answer 1

You're not addicted.  But you need to stop using Coricidin as that **** will destroy your body.  If you can't grow up and get a life, at least get some proper DXM gel caps.

Answer 2

smoke some weed

Answer 3

Get yourself to a treatment program. Narcotics Anonymous, though you're a bit young for it, or go talk to your doctor. At 16, you're entitled to confidential medical care. You meet all three criteria for addiction: Escalating use and consequences, consequences from use, and denial. Remember, you can't really evaluate yourself here. Talk to your doctor and perhaps get a referral to a therapist, someone with experience in treating substance abuse in minors, but any therapist will do in a pinch.

This drug makes things very ugly later in life when you continue to abuse it. We're starting to see a fair bit of it turn up in treatment programs around the country. Please get help.

Answer 4

You won't get holes in your brain, that is just a myth. If you're going to do DXM make sure you get Robo cough gels. The syrup is bad for you (CCC, Triple-C) and at higher doses you could easily end up in a hospital. The gels contain only DXM and therefore much more safe.

Just tips to be safe. Now if you really want to quit just really put your mind to it and you can. My friend was 'addicted' to DXM but he had the will power to stop.

Good luck to you.

Answer 5

Go to rehab for cough syrup are you serious.

Stop taking it or find some other drug to do. Or get a hobby.