Well, the students involved were girls, so I don’t think they’re worried about their erections. 
Secondly, no, I won’t be talking to them about it, and I certainly won’t be counseling them about a “safer” way to trip on cough medicine. I have reported it, and I will let the guidance counselors do their jobs. They know what they’re doing more than I do on issues like this.
But now I feel the need to tell kids not to suck on cough drops during class.
We just recently had a girl die in our area from mixing a morphine pill and Corcedin. Not cool. Died within a day of taking it, and she didn’t take large doses either. Pretty senseless.
Nah. It’s cough syrup we’re talking about, not cough drops. There is a brand or two of cough drops with a small amount of DXM in them, but the vast majority of cough drops aren’t much more than hard candy.
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That’s what I figured at first (geez, you’d have to eat a million of those things for any effect). But that “injuryboard” site said “cough and cold drops,” so I thought they must be right.
I believe I’ve read something about people seeking out the DXM-containing cough drops, then boiling them down and drinking the resultant sludge. So, if you see any of your students drinking large glasses of thick, brightly-colored liquid, you might have a problem. If they’re just sucking on cough drops, though, I don’t see it.
For proof of this, just go to your local grocery store and start picking up bags of cough drops to check the ingredients. Dextromethorphan is the drug in question.