Grocers and pharmacists may

be noticing large numbers of these pills disappearing from their shelves.

This is not due to a particularly large number of persons having cold

symptoms.

Parents, please take note if

you see your child with these small red pills and question their use.

When taken in high doses, the abuser is impaired by hallucinations and,

if driving, would be a danger to themselves and others.

As with many drugs that are

abused, some of the signs you will see in your child after taking these

include feeling very tired, sleeping excessively, acting irritable, a

change in attitude, enlarged pupils, and complaints of feeling very hot

with observed sweating while indoors.

Our city needs to come together

to stop the abuse of Coricidin before it destroys a life.

Christina Quinn, R.N., D.N.S.

Peachtree City

[Editor's note: A web site

devoted to the dangers of abuse of this drug

says that several other over-the-counter drugs also contain the desired

ingredient dextromethorphan. The web address for this anecdotal and officially

unverified information is https://www.coricidin.org.]

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