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Doctors Warn About Cough Syrup Cocktail
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Cough Syrup Mixed With Soda Becomes Addictive, Doctors Say
San Diego Charger?s defensive back Terrence Keil of Tyler was charged with illegally shipping cases of prescription cough syrup promethazine with codeine back home.The Drug Enforcement Agency believed the shipment was intended to be mixed with soda or sports drinks to make a drug called ?sizzurp? or ?lean? to be sold on the streets."And that's where the idea of ?lean? comes through because once they take it, they get very, very slow and methodical and it's kind of a euphoric high for them," DEA?s Michelle Deaver said.
The DEA seized a load of the syrup from an online pharmacy, which agents said was headed to North Texas for sale."Most pharmacies only carry a couple bottles of it to fill legal prescriptions,? Deaver said. ?It's unscrupulous pharmacists who will order tens of thousands of bottles just to go out and do a behind the market sales of it."The drug is a hot topic on the Internet, where many people try to learn how to mix the ingredients, but doctors stressed the dangers of the mixture."Not only is it illegal, it's potentially lethal, and it's addictive,? UT Southwestern?s Paul Pepe said.
Keil pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
The DEA seized a load of the syrup from an online pharmacy, which agents said was headed to North Texas for sale."Most pharmacies only carry a couple bottles of it to fill legal prescriptions,? Deaver said. ?It's unscrupulous pharmacists who will order tens of thousands of bottles just to go out and do a behind the market sales of it."The drug is a hot topic on the Internet, where many people try to learn how to mix the ingredients, but doctors stressed the dangers of the mixture."Not only is it illegal, it's potentially lethal, and it's addictive,? UT Southwestern?s Paul Pepe said.
Keil pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.