Is DXM Addictive?
It’s definitely addictive to the right people.. I was on it for almost two years at least three days out of the week (usually every school day) I claimed I wasn’t addicted and that I just liked it a lot, and thought it had no consequence physiologically so I kept doing it. Soon my tolerance had me taking huge amounts every time, and one day with too much caffeine I topped it off and overdosed… Now I can’t do it anymore, or I freak out and think I’m going to die because I get chest pains and numbness in my arms. I still lust it when I see a box of coricidin sitting on a store shelf.. thats how I know I was really addicted. The way it changed my mental processes and made everything (especially music) so much more intense… I more or less fell in love with it. I would say if you do DXM, leave at the very least a week between each trip, if not two. I suffer from visual disturbances to this day, panic disorder, and a stomach ulcer.
From one viewpoint, of course, anything can be addictive — television, chocolate, masturbation, self-mutilation, etc. So in that sense, yes, DXM can be addictive. Somewhat more relevant are the degree to which DXM is addictive, and how such addiction manifests itself. The quick answer is, DXM can be addictive if you use too much, too often. The traditional distinction made with respect to addiction is between physical addiction and psychological addiction. As examples, alcohol is physically addictive, whereas marijuana is psychologically addictive. Unfortunately this distinction has its problems – not the least of which is that since the brain is a physical construct, any addiction is in some sense “physical.” As physical addiction is a somewhat nebulous concept at best, I prefer to use the concrete ideas of tolerance and serious withdrawal symptoms. Tolerance is a process by which the body and brain adjust to a drug so that the dosage must be increased to achieve the same effect (som
From one viewpoint, of course, anything can be addictive – television, chocolate, masturbation, self-mutilation, etc. So in that sense, yes, DXM can be addictive. Somewhat more relevant are the degree to which DXM is addictive, and how such addiction manifests itself. The quick answer is, DXM can be addictive if you use too much, too often. The traditional distinction made with respect to addiction is between physical addiction and psychological addiction. As examples, alcohol is physically addictive, whereas marijuana is psychologically addictive. Unfortunately this distinction has its problems – not the least of which is that since the brain is a physical construct, any addiction is in some sense “physical.” As physical addiction is a somewhat nebulous concept at best, I prefer to use the concrete ideas of tolerance and serious withdrawal symptoms. Tolerance is a process by which the body and brain adjust to a drug so that the dosage must be increased to achieve the same effect (some
