So you only take it when you absolutely have to instead of OD’ing because cough syrup tastes good.
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A lot of medicinal compounds are alkaloids, which are naturally bitter
Lots of pill-shaped medicine already does. You’re supposed to swallow them immediately, if you don’t you often find that they are mixed with bittering agents (or just naturally taste bitter).
Where I live, cough syrup that might actually be dangerous (e.g. the purple drank stuff) is already prescription-only or fully illegal, anyway.
Coatings also prevent insufflation
nah, 10 seconds in your mouth will loosen the coating, then you just wipe the wet coating off on your shirt or something and then you can crush the pill without worrying about the coating.
Sure, there are various ways to get the coatings off, although that sounds like a pretty shitty coating. The “better” pills are harder than that to defeat.
With that being said, it’s more about stopping a kid from stealing their parents pills to take to a party than stopping serious addicts from snorting pills. The kids are the ones who will OD
Maybe that’s why they made the banana flavor amoxicillin medicine so yummy, so that people would finish their course of antibiotics
That’s just dumb. The drug compounds themselves taste bad. A lot of work goes into making them palatable… especially in children’s formulations.
It’s the drugs themselves that taste horrible. It’s not intentional, it’s just how they are.
You’re not wrong about some drugs but others taste bad simply because they don’t consider flavor and you’re supposed to just swallow them anyways.
Some Ibuprofen pills taste neutral to pleasant while others are awfully bitter. Ibuprofen itself has a clinical or sterile or saline IV flavor, not offensive.
Unflavored sugar pill is a pretty awful taste on its own.
Would only work for children. Can’t even get the good cold medicine now because people were using Sudafed to make meth and Dimetap to go “robotripping” or make sizzuryp or however the hell it’s called.
dimetap (from what I could find) used DXM, which is exactly what people use for robotripping, but “sizzurp” (lean) in modern times refers to codeine. Funnily enough, og lean was beer mixed with dxm.
It’s an entirely different class from opiates though, and if you really need it, robocough apparently still make tablets to avoid the nastiness of syrups.
Let’s be real, nobody is taking recreational drugs for the flavor
Bad flavor does really temper any interest I might have in edibles. Not going to say I never use them, but I’m not tempted to have them just for the fun of it. It’s pretty much just a sleep aid.
Do syrups count? When mixed with a non-sweetened drink I can see that tasting nice
idk man, these gummy melatonin taste very yummy…
yawn Mommy, I’m feeling kinda sleepy…
(yes that actually happened irl, some woman gave a whole container of gummy meletonin to their kid cuz they were “annoying”… they ended up in the ER… no criminal charges filed… 👀)
People would just shoot it up or boof it instead…
That kinda requires intention and effort, you wouldn’t be doing it because the process is so enjoyable. I definitely remember syrup medicine being really tasty when I was a kid.
Okay, you’re right, allow me to correct myself…
PeopleAddicts would just shoot it up or boof it instead, or smoke it somehow…
