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    Cough medicine and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs can have both short-term and long-term negative effects if abused or taken in overdose amounts. Short-term effects of cough medicine overdose include paranoia, confusion, excessive sweating, and vomiting. Long-term overuse can lead to breathing problems, blurred vision, drowsiness, and even coma. OTC drugs are easily accessible but abusing them risks heart attack, liver and kidney damage, depression, and anxiety down the road. It is not worth the future health problems to abuse cough medicines or OTC drugs for their temporary high.

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    Cough medicine and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs can have both short-term and long-term negative effects if abused or taken in overdose amounts. Short-term effects of cough medicine overdose include paranoia, confusion, excessive sweating, and vomiting. Long-term overuse can lead to breathing problems, blurred vision, drowsiness, and even coma. OTC drugs are easily accessible but abusing them risks heart attack, liver and kidney damage, depression, and anxiety down the road. It is not worth the future health problems to abuse cough medicines or OTC drugs for their temporary high.

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    Cough medicine and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs can have both short-term and long-term negative effects if abused or taken in overdose amounts. Short-term effects of cough medicine overdose include paranoia, confusion, excessive sweating, and vomiting. Long-term overuse can lead to breathing problems, blurred vision, drowsiness, and even coma. OTC drugs are easily accessible but abusing them risks heart attack, liver and kidney damage, depression, and anxiety down the road. It is not worth the future health problems to abuse cough medicines or OTC drugs for their temporary high.

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    Daria Gamm PSHE Stay safe, healthy, and happy!

    17 January 2022

    DAILY RESEARCH
    THE TRUTH ABOUT DRUGS: COUGH MEDICINES AND OTC DRUGS

    Immediate effects
    of Cough Medicine
    Short-term but immediate
    cough medicine overdose
    provides with effects such as:
    paranoia, confusion,
    excessive sweating, and
    vomiting. The effects might
    last from an hour to a day and
    the damage done may vary
    from slight to the opposite
    depending on the organism
    and the overdose intake.

    Long-term
    What are these?
    consequences Cough medicine is a medicine prescripted by a doctor if needed.
    It is usually aimed at suppressing dry cough or helping the
    Long-term consequences of patient to cough up the extra mucus. There are many cons and
    medicine overdose include pros about this
    symptoms such as: breathing type of cure,
    problems, blurred vision, but most of
    drowsiness, dizziness or even
    the humanity
    coma. It is obvious that the
    rely on the
    longer the intake occurred
    the worse the effects will be chemical
    and the harder the cure remedy to get
    process will take place. faster results.

    Other dangers
    Over-the-counter medications (OTC drugs) are the exact same
    Even when they are not fatal
    the effects of overdose can be chemical remedies people rely on being sick, but which are sold
    extreme. Chances of heart directly to the costumer without a doctor’s prescription. This
    attack, liver and kidney type of medicine can be easily supplied by the teenagers or any
    damage, depression and other person since it is a totally legal drug providing with ‘high’
    anxiety - all this can happen if effect in overdose.
    abusing the OTC drugs.

    It is have to be understood that the several-moment feeling of buzz is not worth the money and health loss
    problems further in the future. The life is beautiful and reachable to the any point wanted. The drug once taken
    being a teen can ruin your life being an adult.

    P.S. - If you are in known position about your friend abusing OTC drugs, please, for their benefit, try having a talk
    discussing the damages with and attempt to direct them into visiting a doctor.

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