OGIS
05-12-2016, 10:15 AM
I'm fairly certain that, as defined by the symptoms, this particular form of drug abuse is rampant among conservatives.
Way too much: Imodium is newest way of getting highIt's the newest way of getting high. It's completely legal and you get as much of it as you want as often as you'd like for only a few dollars from any drugstore. It's even being compared to heroin by Dr. Jeanna Marraffa at the Upstate New York Poison Center
"I think that it's just as dangerous if not more dangerous, if not more dangerous," says Marraffa.
Loperamide is the opioid found in medications like Imodium. Since it was approved by the FDA decades ago, loperamide has been used to help with diarrhea. However, now word is spreading about how dangerous this drug can be in high doses. Katharine Rayland needed to have her heart shocked back to life 28 times when she went to the emergency room after abusing the drug for a year.
"I went out and was code blue, I was on full cardiac arrest. I was blue blue," says Rayland.
That was in 2012. At that time, Rayland was the first person Upstate University Hospital had encountered who admitted to using loperamide to get high. Since then the Upstate New York Poison Center has seen a 70 percent increase in patients overdosing on Imodium.
"Cases that come into the emergency department are even dying from that, so unfortunately we're learning the hard way about the risk of toxisity of this drug," says Marraffa.
People like Rayland used it to deal with her withdrawal from vicodin. Others use it simply to get a cheap, legal high. Either way, unlike low doses increased doses push the drug into your brain making you high. When abused it can cause deadly heart problems.
http://cnycentral.com/news/local/way-too-much-imodium-is-newest-way-of-getting-high?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link
Way too much: Imodium is newest way of getting highIt's the newest way of getting high. It's completely legal and you get as much of it as you want as often as you'd like for only a few dollars from any drugstore. It's even being compared to heroin by Dr. Jeanna Marraffa at the Upstate New York Poison Center
"I think that it's just as dangerous if not more dangerous, if not more dangerous," says Marraffa.
Loperamide is the opioid found in medications like Imodium. Since it was approved by the FDA decades ago, loperamide has been used to help with diarrhea. However, now word is spreading about how dangerous this drug can be in high doses. Katharine Rayland needed to have her heart shocked back to life 28 times when she went to the emergency room after abusing the drug for a year.
"I went out and was code blue, I was on full cardiac arrest. I was blue blue," says Rayland.
That was in 2012. At that time, Rayland was the first person Upstate University Hospital had encountered who admitted to using loperamide to get high. Since then the Upstate New York Poison Center has seen a 70 percent increase in patients overdosing on Imodium.
"Cases that come into the emergency department are even dying from that, so unfortunately we're learning the hard way about the risk of toxisity of this drug," says Marraffa.
People like Rayland used it to deal with her withdrawal from vicodin. Others use it simply to get a cheap, legal high. Either way, unlike low doses increased doses push the drug into your brain making you high. When abused it can cause deadly heart problems.
http://cnycentral.com/news/local/way-too-much-imodium-is-newest-way-of-getting-high?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link