Stay away from excess dextromethorphan, folks. It’s a crappy drug, and has many unpleasant side-effects. It acts like PCP in higher doses, and can give some dandy cognitive impairment. Some of which may be permanent.
It really doesn’t help quiet a cough much, either.
It was popular with a certain class of idiots in my dorm in college. And that was in 1993, so I don’t think its really a new idea. FYI, they called it “getting Robo’d” (Robitussin).
Now someone will probably insist that all the cough syrups containing dextromethorphan be kept behind the pharmacy counter, like they did with pseudoephedrine. I hate having to deal with that every time I get Sudafed, which is the only decongestant that actually works for me. I’m not sure who I’m madder at- the rabidly anti-drug lawmakers who make it hard for me to get my medicines, or the people who misuse over-the-counter drugs and prompt the lawmakers to make my life more difficult :mad:
I only tried a little bit of “Dex” and it made me have weird half-dreaming half-awake experiences for about an hour before I went to sleep. (This was a few years ago.) A friend of mine has used it much more extensively and talks about various “plateaus,” clearly distinguished points of the experience which get more and more intense as the dose goes up. At the higher levels, it’s a completely dissociative, psychedelic high so powerful it’s mind-boggling that you can just buy it at a gas station. I’m not really a psychedelics fan so I’m not into that, but those who are have reported some insane shit. You can read various stories about it on erowid.
Certain frats at my undergrad were notorious for giving out “Tussin Shots.” (Where’s Pukey the Smilie?)
Benedryl trips were also big at my school. I had a really fun (well, fun after the fact) conversation with a guy tripping his head off from a handfull of pills back when I was on campus ems. When I was trying to give this guy a “how-well-are-we-cognating-today” test, I asked him the basic questions: Who are you, where are you, what time is it, what is going on. I got who he was and where he was ok, but when I got to what time is it, his response was a long, drawn out, “I’m thinking of time travel.” He then started picking things (ants?) off of my pant legs and staring at the light playing on the trash bin liner. Fun.
How do you play the choking game “involuntarily”? Someone actually chokes someone?
Or am I confusing that with my friends who liked to make themselves faint?
Also, isn’t cough syrup used to make meth?
According to one girl and one guy who had it done to them and reported to me firsthand: you’re at a party, drinking and everything and having a good time, but what you don’t know is a group of people are picking who’s going to be the “victim”. Then someone lets out a yell and everyone piles on you. While several people hold you down, one or more people choke you until you pass out. Girls are only allowed to choke girls, and guys only allowed to choke guys.
They get extra points if you pee yourself while they’re doing it. :rolleyes: The “terror” is supposed to be the “ultimate rush”, especially because no one knows whether or not it’s going to happen to them.
For some reason, likely peer pressure, or the fact that there’s typically drugs involved, no one ever thinks to call the police. But it’s all in good fun, right? :rolleyes:
Yeah. In 1991 or so, a friend of mine was relating tales of this to me as ancient history (early 80s 
). He said that in the gay scene (and probably elsewhere too) in Sydney, people used to actually drink cough syrup out of liqueur glasses, and even toast one another’s health. It came to a stop (in this country at least) when the government became aware of the abuse, and the medicines began to contain an additive which would make you throw up if you took more than a safe dose.
Nowadays, it’s either Robotripping (Robitussin) or VoodooTripping (Vicks 44). I’ve dealt with several disciplinary cases on my college(!) campus involving people getting high this way. Even had one attempt to claw his own eyes out over the hallucinations.
Pretty embarrassing for everyone involved, really.
People were Roboing at my high school way back in 1971.
To me it always looked like Barfarama.
A few years ago, a boy at my son’s middle school died doing that autoeroticism thing.
This is what happens to me if I take even a hit of pot (tee-hee, I sound so old when I say it that way), anything harder is right out (discovered through process of elimination- I’m so dumb. Pot makes you feel like your body is slowing down and dying? Try smoking it through a used crack pipe!). Now I get the catch-up thing randomly, if I’m under any amount of stress, and it’s the scariest thing. Suffice to say, I am now terrified of cough syrup.
Ah, a DXM topic.
I used to do this drug alot (by alot I mean 1-2 a month). This isnt some mild garbage high caused by inhaling air duster. Dextromethorphan is a very powerful drug. If you were to categorize it would be a disassociative or psychedelic. Alot of time distortion, ego annihilation/depersonalization, hallucinations (not a very strong hallucinogen in low doses), double vision, a general slowing down of sensory input and very abstract thinking.
It’s a hell of a drug. But also a double-edged sword.
I really dont do DXM that much anymore. Finding the time when nobody is up late at night is hard. And drinking cough syrup is horrible. Although there is a way of extracting DXM from cough syrup, the process is time consuming and inefficient.
All of this “tripping” you refer to…is it anything like mescaline or acid tripping I “heard about” in the early 70s?
Although I have never taken LSD or mescaline, I did take a dose of a drug similar to acid which we will simply call LSA. It was completly different. Sure, I did get visuals and my thinking was warped in a way I never felt before. But the twos effects were not similar. I cant really explain it to someone who hasent done either.
But the 3 drugs are similar in they both cause hallucinations and significantly alter your thought processes. For the sober individual who isnt intrested in seeing a different view on reality, thats all the description that matters.