DXM Abuse

Cough medicine abuse is taking extremely large doses of cough medicine to get high. The "high" is caused by taking a large amount of dextromethorphan (DXM), a common active ingredient found in many cough medications. This sort of abuse -- whether it's called cough medicine abuse, or dextromethorphan, or DXM abuse -- can be dangerous.

Devon on DXM Abuse:
"A year or so ago was introduced to a new friend and a new chapter in my life I went to her house one night and she suggested doing Triple C's. I had never done them but had seen people on them and wanted to try it out. We took them and went for a walk. It took a long time for them to kick in. I remember I was sitting on the floor in her kitchen when the psychedelic curtains on the windows began to move. I tried to stand up but had lost all control of my body.

"Over the next few months I began to do DXM every other day as well as other drugs. I started to feel like I needed it just to be myself. I lost all thoughts of past ambition; my concepts of family were totally warped. I remember plotting to kill my mom and I broke into a girl's house because she stole my cousin's shirt. I was reckless and self-destructive, but I thought it was happiness I was feeling. I was so disillusioned into feeling so artistic and intellectual all the time. I lost sight of everything else in my life but the drug and what it did to me."