How can dextromethorphan be dangerous for teens?

Although Dextromethorphan -- or DXM -- (the ingredient found in most popular nonprescription cold and cough medicines) can be safely taken in 15 to 30 milligram doses, when taken in significant doses can produce euphoric highs and even hallucinations. And many kids are taking sometimes as much as 25 to 50 times the recommended dose to get that high. One out of every fourteen kids aged 12 to 17 (more than 2.4 million) admit using cold or cough medicine "fairly recently" to get high.

Only 45 percent of teens believe that abusing cough medicine to get high is risky. Cough syrup is readily accessible in stores and online, but most kids say the easiest place to get it is right in their own medicine cabinets at home. Dangers: The American Medical Association released a warning to parents that when kids take this in large amounts it can become a dangerous, even deadly mind-altering drug, and intake is on the rise.

Perhaps because medicines containing DXM are easily accessible in drug stores (or medicine cabinets) and is legal, cold- and cough-syrup abuse has soared in recent years.

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