So you only take it when you absolutely have to instead of OD’ing because cough syrup tastes good.

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    Lots of pill-shaped medicine already does. You’re supposed to swallow them immediately, if you don’t you often find that they are mixed with bittering agents (or just naturally taste bitter).

    Where I live, cough syrup that might actually be dangerous (e.g. the purple drank stuff) is already prescription-only or fully illegal, anyway.

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        nah, 10 seconds in your mouth will loosen the coating, then you just wipe the wet coating off on your shirt or something and then you can crush the pill without worrying about the coating.

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          Sure, there are various ways to get the coatings off, although that sounds like a pretty shitty coating. The “better” pills are harder than that to defeat.

          With that being said, it’s more about stopping a kid from stealing their parents pills to take to a party than stopping serious addicts from snorting pills. The kids are the ones who will OD

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    Something just tangentially related but “lozenge” is such a strange word

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    Maybe that’s why they made the banana flavor amoxicillin medicine so yummy, so that people would finish their course of antibiotics

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    I mean they flavor cough syrup. That being said if you have the money and can find a real apathecary type pharmacy they can do things like mix medicines with candy.

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      dimetap (from what I could find) used DXM, which is exactly what people use for robotripping, but “sizzurp” (lean) in modern times refers to codeine. Funnily enough, og lean was beer mixed with dxm.

      It’s an entirely different class from opiates though, and if you really need it, robocough apparently still make tablets to avoid the nastiness of syrups.

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        Oh fuck beer with dxm would taste awful and feel so weird.

        I accidentally had a bit too much dxm attempting to be functional enough to work. Wild experience

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            Everything is basically in slow motion, and movements feel like moving through water. Besides that, I’d describe it as a heightened state of stupid. Out of body experiences are rare, but pretty wild.

            But it’s exactly the same trip every time, so it gets old after 20 or so.

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            I was only mildly feeling it, but yeah that sounds like what a lot too much would feel like. Definitely interesting feeling, I get why people might reach that point for the novelty. Kinda like a weed body high with a clearish mind from what I remember

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      Bad flavor does really temper any interest I might have in edibles. Not going to say I never use them, but I’m not tempted to have them just for the fun of it. It’s pretty much just a sleep aid.

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    That’s just dumb. The drug compounds themselves taste bad. A lot of work goes into making them palatable… especially in children’s formulations.

    It’s the drugs themselves that taste horrible. It’s not intentional, it’s just how they are.

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      You’re not wrong about some drugs but others taste bad simply because they don’t consider flavor and you’re supposed to just swallow them anyways.

      Some Ibuprofen pills taste neutral to pleasant while others are awfully bitter. Ibuprofen itself has a clinical or sterile or saline IV flavor, not offensive.

      Unflavored sugar pill can have a pretty awful taste on its own.

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    Not all of it does? The medicine I take most often is ibuprofen pills (when I get headaches), which tastes completely neutral, neither good nor bad.

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      That kinda requires intention and effort, you wouldn’t be doing it because the process is so enjoyable. I definitely remember syrup medicine being really tasty when I was a kid.

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        Okay, you’re right, allow me to correct myself…

        People Addicts would just shoot it up or boof it instead, or smoke it somehow…