Share of Cost, Imodium for a legal high is as dumb and dangerous as it sounds
Monday, May. 9th 2016 6:00 AM
The over-the-counter anti-diarrhea medication Imodium, or its key ingredient loperamide, is increasingly being abused by people attempting to self-treat their opioid addiction, with sometime fatal results. Two case studies outlining the phenomenon were published online Friday in Annals of Emergency Medicine.
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