DXM Powder

DXM powder, also known as dextromethorphan powder, is a common, active ingredient in many cough medications. DXM can be abused by ingesting high, non-recommended doses of cough medicine (which contains DXM), the pure powder form of DXM is also sold illicitly via the Internet.

Shannon, 24, Talks About DXM Plateau:
“I thought that when I was under the influence of DXM, everything was so wonderful and everything was great, and that I could enjoy things so much better. I [thought I] was a better writer, I was a better artist, I was a better everything when I was on this drug. But really, I was just diluting myself and I wasn’t a better artist and I wasn’t a better writer, you know?

“Also using the DXM led me into so many other behaviors that I would’ve never taken part in. But because it totally skewed my judgment, I ended up doing so many things I would never have done.

“I didn’t care about anything. I didn’t even care if I died. I mean, it just made me completely lose touch with reality. I was like, ‘You know what? If I get in a car accident and kill myself – whatever.’ I just totally became apathetic towards everything -- it totally killed my emotions. That’s the best way to explain it, is that once I started doing it, my morals -- my everything -- just went to the wayside. I just became this feelingless person, you know? And I was turned into, like, what I always said I hated.”

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*A dissociative is a drug which reduces (or blocks) signals to the conscious mind from other parts of the brain, typically to the physical senses. Such a state of sensory deprivation and dissociation can facilitate hallucinations, and dreamlike states of mind which may resemble some psychedelic mind states.