@drtashaswalve: Addiction to OTC meds #otc #danger #medication #neuroscience #dex

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minicipher
MiniCipher :
not quite the point of the video, but where i live, many people are addicted to nasal spray (oxymetazoline, xylometazoline etc.). many former/current drug users share that nasal spray was a starting point of their journey of using drugs
2026-08-20 12:10:21
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user13124206769
John Smith :
My mom gave me Benadryl as a kid to sleep, and when I was in the psych ward they gave it to me everyday to calm me and help me sleep. It’s been an on/off addiction for years.
2026-08-20 14:47:11
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davidsherman03
David Sherman :
Who’s out here getting high on immodium😭
2026-07-19 23:12:16
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radfemma2
radfemma🌱 :
Drs would rather have you take 6000mg of NSAIDS daily than 5mg of an opioid. it’s ridiculous. this applies to SO many meds too, gabapentin instead of opioids/benzos, etc
2026-07-19 23:52:45
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fredsmom9
Fred’s Mom :
Immodium abuse?? People please, my IBS does not need it to be hard to buy this stuff.
2026-07-19 21:31:44
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tropicofgemini
sophi :
i remember there was this otc medication (cannot remember the name) that kids in my highschool would take at school. it was a stimulant or at least had stimulant like effects. it was sold as a decongestant (not sudafed) but was in a soaked cotton stick form in a small tube. i believe there was lavender or peppermint oil that the manufacturer added to the product so it would be extremely bitter and less prone to abuse. but still .. kids would cut open the cotton and eat it! 😭 it may have started with a ‘d’, does this ring any bells?
2026-08-08 20:01:21
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user738483968
User7384839 :
Yeah you didn’t state nearly well enough how ridiculously dangerous and terrifying and physically unpleasant high doses of Benadryl can be
2026-07-23 05:40:21
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gotchaon4u
gotchaon4u :
The LOML once got too high on Benadryl as a teenager and ended up in ICU, died during our relationship from a fentanyl laced Percocet street pill
2026-07-20 15:20:20
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justjustjupiter
Jupiter :
I became addicted to Benadryl. Was taking 400mg every night for years.
2026-07-22 21:11:52
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lucynite3
Lucynite :
I tried getting high on DXM one time. I did not realise that the sorbitol in the cough syrup would make me vomit my guts out. Worst night ever
2026-07-19 20:22:52
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marissaachee
Marissa Achee :
what about vivance? as a antihistamine? or is that different?
2026-07-20 11:29:51
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cvt626
✨Kings Mage✨ :
Not having read the data, I'd hazard a guess that that 50% number may have come from that particular studies definition of misuse. I have a hard time believing half of people abuse OTC meds, but I could easily see extra label use (like antihistamines as sleep aids etc) I can definitely see 50% being a realistic figure
2026-07-19 20:29:14
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lavenderskye8
Lavender Skye :
Not me sliiiiiiiding my Sam's Club Advil bottle out of the frame 🙃
2026-07-19 20:52:07
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dancingardenerx
Opinionatedboomer :
I knew someone who was addicted to keyboard cleaning spray 😳
2026-07-20 06:55:19
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ellie.please
Ellie :
is there any potential similar risk with Auvelity to what you listed for DXM? Or are the high doses you’re talking about way higher than what’s in Auvelity (and the increased exposure from the buproprion)?
2026-07-20 04:47:31
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kellie_is_sleepy
Kellie_is_sleepy :
I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this information being available! It’s sooo important for people to understand the actual science behind such a taboo topic.
2026-07-19 21:46:04
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rraaeeiinn
Raein 💧 :
Interesting I thought you were gonna talk about Afrin, which is the only substance where I have felt an extreme physical dependency from something that was one prescribed me and two felt unusually casual in the way it’s handled. I did learn later that I just needed to move out of the house with my sister’s cats because I’m super allergic to cats.
2026-07-20 00:40:30
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alicerhodes5
Alice Rhodes :
I realize you were talking about people taking higher doses to get recreational effects but I still feel like afrim should have been mentioned hahaha
2026-07-19 22:46:31
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pixa820
pixa :
thank you for the information and how you present it
2026-07-26 20:46:48
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lionessbabii
꒰ྀི১ ໒꒱ིྀ holly jade 🐾 :
I had a tussin addiction in 2022. The addiction for me was not physical but it was mental, which i know lots of people dont consider true addiction but yk. I would go on benders of it which is crazy because your tolerance to it builds after every use. It definitely gave me memory problems, mixed with the alcohol and weed i was smoking made it worse. Definitely not a fun drug to use and even more horrible to try and stop taking. Not taking it made me dissociate soo bad because the real world felt too “real”
2026-07-21 20:46:53
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mariaclaudiapaq
Mc nuggies :
My problem is I have residual cough after almost all respiratory viruses i caught. Inflammatory response of my bronchioles probably. Because people took codeine and abused it now it’s not over the counter anymore and I have to get prescription every times. Cuz nothing else work.
2026-07-24 17:20:52
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talderwitch
Jess 🏳️‍🌈 :
i mean to be fair there are no "good" studies on the long term effects of dextro use precisely because these people often abuse other drugs. most of those are single case studies or small sample sizes with little to no controls. I'm not saying it's good for you!! I'm saying we literally cannot say what it's actually doing because of this. there's evidence it could cause what you say but there's no way to isolate it because it's under-studied and also people do not like to admit to doing it.
2026-07-20 16:32:19
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pearlyburgs
Sylvia Pearl 💕 :
Wait I need my immodium for my ibs, I take it like 3-4x a week 😭
2026-07-20 21:41:19
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jetskimonarch
jetski monarch :
before anyone gets any ideas, one time i was extremely sick and I accidentally drank an entire bottle of cough syrup bc my fever was making me forget I took it and i had the WORST TIME EVER. it wasn't fun high or fun hallucinations, I was nauseous and lost the meaning of time so I had the longest most awful night of my life. js 💕
2026-07-20 05:37:20
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norton_kane
Nortonkane💪✌️ :
In the first few seconds of the video, I actually thought you were gonna be talking about the smoke from the wildfires causing these problems lol
2026-07-20 11:13:46
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