Robotripping refers to taking DXM to experience various psychological and physical effects. While it isn’t illegal, that doesn’t mean it’s safe. In high doses, it can have serious and lasting effects.

EFFINGHAM COUNTY, GA (WTOC) - The Effingham County Sheriff’s Office says “Robotripping,” or kids taking too much cold medicine at one time, is something deputies are seeing a lot lately, and they want ...

NEW YORK (CBS 2)-- An alarming number of teens are getting high -- not on illegal drugs but on something found in many homes. It's a dangerous addiction that can go unnoticed until it's too late. As ...

Al’s Morning Meeting reader AllyMcNBair at New Hampshire Public TV spotted this story, “Abusing cold medicine to produce a hallucinogenic high has become a ‘mini epidemic’ among the city’s teens, ...

CLEVELAND–A young woman from Northeast Ohio is issuing a warning about the abuse of a popular over-the-counter medication. Samantha Hodge, 18, still struggles with the side effects of taking an ...

Pharmacy Guild of Australia WA Branch President Andrew Ngeow spoke out against the trend this week, explaining how high doses of the easily obtained medicine can end horribly for people unaware of the ...

There’s a new drug causing problems for kids. And they’re not buying it from shady dealers on scary street corners either. Instead, kids are finding it in pharmacies and in their own medicine cabinet.

Teen use of over-the-counter cold and cough medicines to get a cheap high – a practice known as “robotripping” – is rising 50 percent a year and becoming one of the fastest growing drug abuse problems ...

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Health officials have posted a disturbing clip to YouTube aimed at highlighting to teenagers the literally sickening effects of drinking cough syrup to get high. Culminating in a gut-wrenching montage ...

MIAMI (CBS4) -- Most parents worry their teens might get involved in illegal drugs. But many don't think about a legal drug kids are using to get high and it could be in your home right now. It's ...