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According to Pharmacist James (PharmD), you can become addicted to the alcohol in cough syrup. I better start listening to my pharmacist. He's so smart, he can cite himself! 🙄Not really. The amount of ethanol in those preparations isn't enough to intoxicate a fly. Alcohol dehydrogenase will take it out lickity split before any hepatic damage is dealt. It's all about dosage levels. Take enough Tussin DM and I'm sure you'd be trippin' balls.
Of course it's hypocrisy. It cracks me up. If a person were to take Ativan illicitly it's scandalous. A person gets hammered at the local pub and it's fine. Same damn neurotransmitter potentiation. It's another one of those things we don't consider the idiocy of. Ethanol taken at intoxicating levels is a rather dangerous xenobiotic. People are willing to stop taking all sorts of crap because there is a 0.8% chance of hepatic toxicity, yet you'll see a 24-pack cube of Miller Lite in their cart. It's f'n wonderful.
You gotta love it when they buy Miller Lite and Vicodin in the same trip.
