Abuse of the popular cough syrup Coricidin has sent five students in the Tamalpais Union High School District in Marin County to the hospital. 24/7 Live San Francisco East Bay South Bay Peninsula ...

Coricidin tablets with DXM, which have three small Cs printed on each tablet for "Coricidin Cold and Cough." Tussin. Cough syrup with DXM. Tussing. Using products with DXM. It refers to cough ...

Since 1999, teen abuse of Coricidin pills, Robitussin syrup and other common medications has risen 10-fold, ... was first abused in the 1960s when it was in a cough medicine called Romilar, ...

Instead, the site advises using Robitussin Maximum Strength cough syrup or a gelcap that contains only DXM. Even that, the site says, isn't safe, just safer than Coricidin's pills.

At CVS pharmacies, you now have to be at least 18 to buy Coricidin Cough & Cold medicine. At Walgreens, there's a three-pack limit on an extra-strength variety of those pills. And at some ...

Drug: Coricidin HPB Cold and Cough. What it is: An over-the-counter medicine to treat the symptoms of colds and coughs. How it's abused: Users take excessive numbers of the tablets to achieve an ...

Coricidin Cough and Cold Tablets, and more specifically their cough suppressant, dextromethorphan, or DXM, became Cahoon's drug of choice. When taken in big doses, DXM can cause hallucinations ...

In a 911 recording released by police, Phelps tells a dispatcher that he took too much Coricidin Cough & Cold medicine, then went to sleep. He recalled having a dream, then waking up to see his ...

More than 125 over-the-counter (OTC) medicines for cough and colds contain DXM. It’s in Coricidin, Dimetapp DM, Nyquil, Robitussin Cough and Cold, and store brands for cough-and-cold medicines.