i'm not talkin' about kool-aid or that purple stuff from the Sunny Delight commerical either.

It just kind of tripped me out when i kind of stumbled over that fact that this is a now a trend within the drug culture.

i knew about the Robutussion trick, but i had no idea this theory caught fire and now people are actually mixing cough syrup with sprite and jolly ranchers!

Uhhh, yes. It's mostly a Southern thing but do you know how many rappers from the Houston/New Orleans area have died from that shit???? It's fuckin' ridiculous. Apparently, that codeine is a helluva drug.
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Yes, they really are drinking it.
It surprised me when someone wanted to buy the codeine cough syrup
that I'd been given (after fracturing a rib coughing).

Yeecchhhh!

yeah, i heard UGK started the whole trend, kinda ironic they think this had something to do with his death.

i guess Lil' Wayne loves this stuff. there's a ton of pictures on him on the net with a styrofoam cup in his hand.

SUPRMAN said:

what ever gets you there i suppose.

magnificentsynthesizer said:

Or a baby bottle. Dumb ass. But Pimp C died because he had sleep apnea AND was doing syrup. Prescriptions for this stuff clear say that you shouldn't take codeine if you have sleep apnea, but I guess addicts don't pay attention to warnings.

I had a nephew who died from taking syrup and Valium about 11 yrs ago. It is a big thing here they take the syrup and also take Valium or Oxycontin with it as well. It also tears up your stomach and gives you bleeding ulcers as well.

I can't stand taking this crap when i have bronchitis or pnuemonia much less to take it for pleasure??? Are you kidding me???? YUCK!!!!!

rachel3 said:

Wow. Sorry to hear that.

One of my students came to me in June about a boy who had started doing it.

When I was in jr. high back in the early 80s, there was a boy who would chug Robitussin straight fromt he bottle. His friends nicknamed him "Codiene Kid". He's dead now. He died right after we graduated high school.

**Someone offered to buy my prescription for Percocet after my surgery...

chocolate1 said:

percocet, vicadin, oxycodone, hydrocodone....all in demand on the streets.

I just don't understand. Why!?

I mean, I understand that some people's lives are so unbearable they feel the need to self-medicate. But in the numbers that we see!? That's crazy! I have to believe some folk just find it fun to be high.

Yet if that's true, what is the appeal!?! Barring the ultimate grasp of earnest addiction, I just honestly have never understood the attractiveness of getting habitually !@$#ed up.
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im surprised that yall are just hearing about this...i think it was bout 10 years back or so it seems that they came out with that fuking song...talking bout "sippin on some sizzurp" by 3 6 mafia i wanna say...THATS when i 1st heard bout that shit...irky ass song...talking bout some dumb ass shit anyways

i just didnt know that people still actually did that shit...

darlinkia said:

Yeah, it's been around for awhile. In the adjacent suburbs where I grew up, I recall kids used to get together for "Robitussin parties" through high school. And that was in the mid- to late '80s.
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That stuff is nasty when I have a cold!

Never heard of it. Sometimes, being old is good.

darlinkia said:

yeah, i even heard that song back in the day, but i really thought it was just slang for the name of a drink.

guess, i should've really listened to the lyrics.

This is just sad!! I know drugs have always been around, and I know they will always be around. It just troubles me to see so many wasted lives.

Never heard of this sh!t until now. What will they think of next?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sizzurp

uPtoWnNY said:

Also in Lil' Waynes "Do My Thing" he sates "I'm like promethazine, I'm in a snail race" On the David Banner song "Speaker" he also rhymes, "I'm a pill poppin' animal, syrup sippin' n****, I'm so high you couldn't reach me with a fucking antenna

uPtoWnNY said:

a foot ball player was selling this? ..

Yeah, Pimp C and like 4 other Houston/New Orleans area rappers and dj's died within months of each other from that shit. Remember, a few years ago you'd see a lot of these fools sucking on baby bottles in their videos? That's what they had in there. The styrofoam cup is another dead giveaway. Not to mention the rotten teeth. But really, folks have been getting high off prescription cough syrup for decades. It just took these fools' rhymin' skillz to market it.

SCNDLS said:

Like I said... a classmate of mine died in the 80s. Just pathetic.

chocolate1 said:

Crazy.

magnificentsynthesizer said:

Maybe they'll inscribe that on Li'l Wayne's tombstone. Dumbass.

Sucking on baby bottles....sheesh, Chuck D & KRS-One must be shaking their heads at what's going on.

i'm almost to the point where i LOVE getting a cold, just so i can chug cough medicine.

i never sleep so well as when i'm high on cough syrup.

Now don't get me wrong, I LOVES me some NyQuil when I'm sick as a dog, that stuff knocks me out SO good...

but for pleasure??? That's just stoopid (and yes i spelled stupid with 2 o's just because it takes it to that extra level of dumbassedness!)

I used to know this junkie around my way who drank a whole bottle of NyQuil when he couldn't get a fix together... A WHOLE BOTTLE!
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Dimetapp is the shit, son! No but seriously. I don't get what's up with people's taste buds. Depending on what brand you take, cough syrup can be quite edible (I think you can use that term in context of speaking on liquidized substances, right?) or should I just say thirst-quenching/pleasing to the tummy and taste buds. Although I don't agree in any more dabbling of the sorts with these medicinal remedies, unless I need to get rid of a cold.
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RenHoek said:

Yeah, NyQuil get's rid of my colds good and helps me sleep but I HATE taking that stuff. The regular green one is just straight nasty...the cherry one is a little better but if I can avoid taking it, I so do.

darlinkia said:

damn, what happened to just smoking some weed?