DXM Overdose

A DXM overdose can occur when DXM is taken at doses that are lethal or toxic and suppresses the central nervous system. If that happens, the brain can stop telling the lungs to breathe, and can cause serious damage and even death. Also, some drugs that people take to get the DXM high also include other ingredients which can interact in your body and have dangerous consequences.

A DXM overdose can cause a person to get extremely sick. In extreme cases, an overdose of DXM can cause death.

Misty Fetko Talks about her son, Carl's Overdose:
"...It wasn’t until after talking with his friends and finding journal entries on his computer, that I discovered that Carl had been abusing cough medicine intermittently over the past two and a half years. He documented his abuse in his computer journal. Through the internet and his friends, Carl had researched and educated himself on how to use these products to get high. He wrote about and enjoyed the hallucinations achieved upon intentionally abusing cough and cold products. Carl had described the 'pull' that he felt towards the disassociative effects of abusing the cough medicine and seemed to crave them.

"According to the journal, Carl gradually increased the amount of cough medicine he abused. He wrote that he was increasingly 'pulled' to the effects of escape more and more.

"Carl's autopsy report revealed that he had died from a lethal mix of drugs: Fentanyl, a strong prescription narcotic available in a patch that is removed and eaten to achieve an abusive high. Cannaboids found in marijuana, and DXM, the active ingredient in cough medicine were found in his system."

Read Carl’s memorial story.