Submitted 13 hours ago by Jo4ted@lemmy.zip to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
So you only take it when you absolutely have to instead of OD’ing because cough syrup tastes good.
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.
Coatings also prevent insufflation
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.
Something just tangentially related but “lozenge” is such a strange word
Such is the way of the Engrish language
Maybe that’s why they made the banana flavor amoxicillin medicine so yummy, so that people would finish their course of antibiotics
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.
A lot of medicinal compounds are alkaloids, which are naturally bitter
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.
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.
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
Let’s be real, nobody is taking recreational drugs for the flavor
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.
Do syrups count? When mixed with a non-sweetened drink I can see that being nice
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… 👀)
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.
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.
If unflavored sugar pills taste bad then estradiol tastes weirdly good. I’d just assumed it was the sugar
People would just shoot it up or boof it instead…
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.
Okay, you’re right, allow me to correct myself…
People Addicts would just shoot it up or boof it instead, or smoke it somehow…
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 hour 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.