Re: urgent question

"Lizard" <lizardpriest@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>There is not now, and has NEVER been, a single study that linked the
>consumption of DXM, Chlorpheniramine Maleate (the other ingredient in
>Coricidin cough and cold) or the combination thereof to Olney's
>lesions or ANY other brain disease.  There are a few (about 6)
>anecdotal re****ts of the Olney's lesions problem, but none have panned
>out, and three of them later were demonstrated to be suffering not
>from Olney's but from another degenerative disease of the brain
>unrelated to drug consumption.
>
>The Olney's lesions theory was ignited by White's otherwise excellent
>but somewhat alarmist DXM faq, and he has now repudiated that section.


Proof is one thing, but it's pretty clear that heavy third- and
fourth-plateau users (people taking such doses more than once or twice
a week) can develop NMDA-antagonist neurotoxicity.  However, it may or
may not be the largest concern - addiction itself would probably be
the bigger issue to worry about.

-- 
Joel Crump