No More Drank In Sri Lanka (Corex D)
Sipping on some syrup, AKA, the two white cups Drake’s holding.
Sri Lanka recently banned all sales of Corex D cough syrup. Why? Because people get high on it, and can also get sick and die. Mixing cough syrup (containing promethazine-codeine) with Sprite or whatever has been popularized by rappers from Houston to Toronto and, despite killing a few of them, the habit has apparently spread to SL. It’s called purple drank, sizzurp, lean, or barre, or many people just take the medicine straight. It seems pretty dodge.
Not that rappers are the cause. People get high however whenever, from eating and smoking random plants in prehistory to abusing medication now. My main exposure to the Corex D phenomenon is hearing rappers and singers talking about codeine cups and whatnot. The trend stared, in a big way, with the song Sipping On Some Syrup by southern rappers Three Six Mafia. Despite one member of that group UGK dying from what seemed to be an overdose, the trend went on such that modern rappers like Lil Wayne are quite public about their use.
Now people have been drinking cough syrup in Sri Lanka to get high, with predictable effects:
These instructions came after five people, who had consumed excessive doses of COREX for the purpose of getting a ‘Kick’ out of it, had died and one man was admitted to the Colombo National Hospital in a serious condition. (Daily Mirror)
So now it’s banned. I didn’t even know that Sri Lankans were doing it.
Posted on Wednesday, October 10th, 2012 in Sri Lanka.
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Here, they don’t mix. Or it is done rarely.
They just gulp down the whole bottle in.
People used to and still do commit suicide by consuming pesticides but we don’t see them getting banned.
Me thinks some minister is going to make big money from some pharmaceutical company to promote it’s brand. Rather than banning it they could make it a prescription only drug…but no, this is after all the land of miracle idiots.
Most of the western drugs in Sri Lanka are prescription only drugs. And pharmacies do get caught here and there, and get fined. But the illegal trade flourish continuously. I think it is something to do with the profit. And even if they get caught this would be a low priority crime for the justice system.
I’m wondering when they’ll ban hair gel, since people eat it to get high.
Do they? One for the to-do list ;-)
Also include batteries (zinc-carbon). For the obvious reason i would not divulge the recipe ;) .
Think I’ll stick to arrack thanks haha
Gel is spread on bread, like jam.
And petrol, because people can sniff and get high.
Actually it seems all you need is some creativity and motivation.
http://www.micheleborba.com/blog/2012/05/31/dangerous-and-stupid-ways-teens-get-high/
well some of these methods involve legal alcohol used in some bizarre ways. I think people here don’t really do those things. If they have alcohol, they would probably drink it.
People have doing ‘Cora’ for ages. First time i heard of this was about 8 years ago. Half a bottle will sort you out for the whole night, and the next day your bones feel like cardboard. Also friends who’ve done it say you can drink double distilled arrack completely neat. So i suppose that’s a heavy kick.
For a while local pharmacies wouldn’t sell it unless you had a prescription, but that wasn’t really enforced very strictly
There was once a robotripper on Kottu. :D
knee-jerk reactions ftw!
eau-de-cologne is drunk to get high… why is no one on this? or like the other folks said, petrol, hair gel, batteries..?
i DEMAND petrol be banned in Sri Lanka!
Corex D doesn’t contain codeine, hence the D.
It contains
- Dextromethorphan – dissociative hallucinogenic psychoactive drug similar to PCP or Ketamine.
- Pseudo-ephedrine – stimulant drug similar to ephedrine. Pseudo is used to manufacture methamphetamine (ice/glass/crystal).
- Chlopheniramine maleate – also known as Piriton. It is a sedating anti-histamine.
True.
They’ll probably be free of sore-throats in their afterlives….
This govt showed it’s foolishness again, the govt officials are going behind media, so the media are the advisers for them, this is really stupid, Corex is a very effective and safe drug which was there for generations, The problem is the pharmacists who sell drugs without prescriptions of doctors, they sell not only Corex but also several other prescription only medicines, so they must be punished first of all, the authorities are going behind blindly, they don’t know what exactly to do, if that is the case highly selling brands of “Paracetamol” also should be banned as many people are died and hospitalized daily due to Paracetamol over dosage who attempt commit suicide, but freely available even in “Petti Kade” , and someone said road traffic also banned due to higher number of fatal accidents, so health & transport ministers, This is over to You????????????????
………………….This govt showed it’s foolishness again, the govt officials are going behind media, so the media are the advisers for them, this is really stupid, Corex is a very effective and safe drug which was there for generations, The problem is the pharmacists who sell drugs without prescriptions of doctors, they sell not only Corex but also several other prescription only medicines, so they must be punished first of all, the authorities are going behind blindly, they don’t know what exactly to do, if that is the case highly selling brands of “Paracetamol” also should be banned as many people are died and hospitalized daily due to Paracetamol over dosage who attempt commit suicide, but freely available even in “Petti Kade” , and someone said road traffic also banned due to higher number of fatal accidents, so health & transport ministers, This is over to You?????>
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