• Cough syrup suspected in 33 deaths in Pakistan
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[quote] LAHORE - Pakistani authorities are investigating allegations that cough syrup has killed 33 people over the past three days, a government official said yesterday, the second time in recent months medicine is suspected of causing multiple deaths. The deaths occurred in the eastern city of Gujranwala and nearby villages, said local official Abdul Jabbar Shaheen. Another 54 people thought to have consumed the syrup are also being treated at city hospitals. Officials believe the victims drank the syrup to get high, he added. Tests show the victims' stomachs contained dextromethorphan, a synthetic morphine derivative used in cough syrup that can have mind-altering effects if consumed in large quantities, said Mr Shaheen. Investigators are trying to determine if the victims drank too much syrup, or whether there was a problem with the medicine itself, he said. Twenty-three people died in the nearby city of Lahore in November after drinking bad cough syrup sold under the brand name Tyno. They were also described at the time as people who consumed the drug to get high. Mr Shaheen said the cough syrup involved in the incidents in and around Gujranwala was not sold under a single brand. He said some people in the city make cough syrup to sell specifically to drug addicts, and officials are trying to arrest them. Officials temporarily closed one Lahore-based pharmaceutical company whose cough syrup was found in the possession of some affected in Gujranwala. They are investigating whether it caused any of the deaths, said Mr Shaheen. AP[/quote] [url]http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC121230-0000019/Cough-syrup-suspected-in-33-deaths-in-Pakistan[/url]
God damn they gotta learn to grip n sip properly
holy fuck 33
It takes loads of dextromethorphan to overdose, there was was likely some other poisonous active ingredient in it.
[QUOTE=Starpluck;39027018]It takes loads of dextromethorphan to overdose, there was was likely some other poisonous active ingredient in it.[/QUOTE] acetaminophen (often found in cough syrup) in high doses causes liver damage and also death and in combination with certain other medications dxm can cause permanent brain damage [QUOTE=Aman VII;39027028]my google fu tells me it had to do with the syrup clotting the blood and causing heart failure. Probably unrelated to the dxm and just a shitty cough syrup. Or well, one you don't guzzle.[/QUOTE] yeah theres lots of sugar and sugar-based shit in there too and thinners and whatever!!!
[QUOTE=Starpluck;39027018]It takes loads of dextromethorphan to overdose, there was was likely some other poisonous active ingredient in it.[/QUOTE] my google fu tells me it had to do with the syrup clotting the blood and causing heart failure. Probably unrelated to the dxm and just a shitty cough syrup. Or well, one you don't guzzle. [editline]30th December 2012[/editline] also anyone who is in the 1st world, just buy robo gels that's so much easier and doesn't taste like shit
[QUOTE=Aman VII;39027028]my google fu tells me it had to do with the syrup clotting the blood and causing heart failure. Probably unrelated to the dxm and just a shitty cough syrup. Or well, one you don't guzzle. [editline]30th December 2012[/editline] [B]also anyone who is like the 1st world, just buy robo gels that's so much easier and doesn't taste like shit[/B][/QUOTE] [quote]He said some people in the city make cough syrup to sell specifically to drug addicts, and officials are trying to arrest them.[/quote] Any cough-syrup made "specifically for drug addicts" is obviously going to harmful and dirty as fuck, there's not the same regulatory or industrial standards associated with normal tested syrup.
I suspect India has got something to do with it If not its probably Israel
#leanin
[QUOTE=shian;39027054]I suspect India has got something to do with it If not its probably Israel[/QUOTE] Failing that, the Americans. Just to cover every base here.
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Pakis are too dumb to check active ingredients [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Racism" - Starpluck))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=Starpluck;39027018]It takes loads of dextromethorphan to overdose, there was was likely some other poisonous active ingredient in it.[/QUOTE] Some syrup contain stuff that is very bad if you drink the bottle, dont remember whats its called, i could extract the dxm with a bunch of chemical agent to get its crystal/powder. My friend took some with alcohol, he ended up puking and felt like shit, after that he was tripping like hell, but i barely felt anything.
[QUOTE=alx12345;39030585]Some syrup contain stuff that is very bad if you drink the bottle, dont remember whats its called, i could extract the dxm with a bunch of chemical agent to get its crystal/powder. My friend took some with alcohol, he ended up puking and felt like shit, after that he was tripping like hell, but i barely felt anything.[/QUOTE] could've been PPA, pseudoephedrine, phenyleprine, any antihistamines, guaifenesin (nausea), acetaminophen/paracetamol/APAP , (alcohol), allergic reactions to some coloring and dyes, bromide poisoning, and also the shitload of sugar they put in the stuff and anyway these werent OTC cough meds
I drank a bottle of lean one time, barely got high and it gave me a stomach ulcer fuck that shit.
Isn't lean slang for the one with codeine in it not dxm?
Well at least they stopped coughing.
[QUOTE=Aman VII;39027008]God damn they gotta learn to grip n sip properly[/QUOTE] I came into this thread to make that exact fucking joke. That didn't take long.
[QUOTE=Reflectent;39031145]could've been PPA, pseudoephedrine, phenyleprine, any antihistamines, guaifenesin (nausea), acetaminophen/paracetamol/APAP , (alcohol), allergic reactions to some coloring and dyes, bromide poisoning, and also the shitload of sugar they put in the stuff and anyway these werent OTC cough meds[/QUOTE] shut up wannabe pharmacologist
[QUOTE=Paramud;39036414]Well at least they stopped coughing.[/QUOTE] it's funny because they died and people dying is really funny
[QUOTE=Dori;39038407]it's funny because they died and people dying is really funny[/QUOTE] Coughing is no laughing matter
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