What if medicine intentionally tastes bad?

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lots of pill-shaped prescription medicine already does. You’re supposed to swallow them immediately, if you don’t you often find that they are mixed with bittering agents (or just naturally taste bitter).

  Where I live, cough syrup that might actually be dangerous (e.g. the purple drank stuff) is already prescription-only or fully illegal, anyway.

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  • jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Coatings also prevent insufflation

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    • teft@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      nah, 10 seconds in your mouth will loosen the coating, then you just wipe the wet coating off on your shirt or something and then you can crush the pill without worrying about the coating.

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• bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe that’s why they made the banana flavor amoxicillin medicine so yummy, so that people would finish their course of antibiotics

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Would only work for children. Can’t even get the good cold medicine now because people were using Sudafed to make meth and Dimetap to make sizzuryp or however the hell it’s called.

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  • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    dimetap (from what I could find) used DXM, which is exactly what people use for robotripping, but “sizzurp” (lean) in modern times refers to codeine. Funnily enough, og lean was beer mixed with dxm.

    It’s an entirely different class from opiates though, and if you really need it, robocough apparently still make tablets to avoid the nastiness of syrups.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh fuck beer with dxm would taste awful and feel so weird.

      I accidentally had a bit too much dxm attempting to be functional enough to work. Wild experience

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• knightly@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A lot of medicinal compounds are alkaloids, which are naturally bitter

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• FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Let’s be real, nobody is taking recreational drugs for the flavor

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  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bad flavor does really temper any interest I might have in edibles. Not going to say I never use them, but I’m not tempted to have them just for the fun of it. It’s pretty much just a sleep aid.

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  • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do syrups count? When mixed with a non-sweetened drink I can see that being nice

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  idk man, these gummy melatonin taste very yummy…

  yawn Mommy, I’m feeling kinda sleepy…

  (yes that actually happened irl, some woman gave a whole container of gummy meletonin to their kid cuz they were “annoying”… they ended up in the ER… no criminal charges filed… 👀)

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• BreadOven@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s just dumb. The drug compounds themselves taste bad. A lot of work goes into making them palatable… especially in children’s formulations.

  It’s the drugs themselves that taste horrible. It’s not intentional, it’s just how they are.

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  • untorquer@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re not wrong about some drugs but others taste bad simply because they don’t consider flavor and you’re supposed to just swallow them anyways.

    Some Ibuprofen pills which taste neutral to pleasant while others are awfully bitter. Ibuprofen itself has a clinical or sterile or saline IV flavor, not offensive.

    Unflavored sugar pill is a pretty awful taste on its own.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If unflavored sugar pills taste bad then estradiol tastes weirdly good. I’d just assumed it was the sugar

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• Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Something just tangentially related but “lozenge” is such a strange word

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  • Jo4ted@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Such is the way of the Engrish language

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean they flavor cough syrup. That being said if you have the money and can find a real apathecary type pharmacy they can do things like mix medicines with candy.

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People would just shoot it up or boof it instead…

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That kinda requires intention and effort, you wouldn’t be doing it because the process is so enjoyable. I definitely remember syrup medicine being really tasty when I was a kid.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Okay, you’re right, allow me to correct myself…

      People Addicts would just shoot it up or boof it instead, or smoke it somehow…

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not all of it does? The medicine I take most often is ibuprofen pills (when I get headaches), which tastes completely neutral, neither good nor bad.

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