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Article: Medicine chest new drug danger? Public forum to explore death threat from cold tablets, diet supplements.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- January 29, 2004
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Byline: Tona Kunz Daily Herald Staff Writer
The newest drug threat for teens lurks in their homes - not on shady Chicago street corners.
Bathroom medicine cabinets full of cough syrups, cold tablets, asthma pills and diet drugs taken in large doses offer legal alternatives to LSD and speed.
Household cleaners, glues and paints offer teens sensations akin to being drunk after inhaling the fumes.
They're gravitating to the legal chemicals because they are cheaper and easier to get than marijuana and alcohol and don't show up on drug screenings. But they come with a different kind of price tag: permanent brain and organ damage or death.
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