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Not My Teen: What parents need to know about cough medicine abuse

No parent wants to believe that their teenager would willingly consume up to 25 times the recommended dose of an over-the-counter cough medicine in order to get high. But the unfortunate reality is that 1 in 20 teens will abuse excessive amounts of dextromethorphan (DXM), the effective ingredient (cough suppressant) found in many OTC cough…

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