Robotripping refers to taking DXM to experience various psychological and physical effects. While it isn’t illegal, that doesn’t mean it’s safe. In high doses, it can have serious and lasting effects.

Pharmacy Guild of Australia WA Branch President Andrew Ngeow spoke out against the trend this week, explaining how high doses of the easily obtained medicine can end horribly for people unaware of the ...

Al’s Morning Meeting reader AllyMcNBair at New Hampshire Public TV spotted this story, “Abusing cold medicine to produce a hallucinogenic high has become a ‘mini epidemic’ among the city’s teens, ...

NEW YORK (CBS 2)-- An alarming number of teens are getting high -- not on illegal drugs but on something found in many homes. It's a dangerous addiction that can go unnoticed until it's too late. As ...

CLEVELAND–A young woman from Northeast Ohio is issuing a warning about the abuse of a popular over-the-counter medication. Samantha Hodge, 18, still struggles with the side effects of taking an ...

Teenagers’ use of over-the-counter cold and cough medicines to get a cheap high — a practice known as “robotripping” — is rising 50 percent a year and becoming one of the fastest-growing drug abuse [… ...

When two teenage girls high on cough syrup were rushed from Moorhead's Red River Area Learning Center to Fargo's Innovis Health on Thursday, the incident seemed to be an isolated local case of a ...

EFFINGHAM COUNTY, GA (WTOC) - The Effingham County Sheriff’s Office says “Robotripping,” or kids taking too much cold medicine at one time, is something deputies are seeing a lot lately, and they want ...

There’s a new drug causing problems for kids. And they’re not buying it from shady dealers on scary street corners either. Instead, kids are finding it in pharmacies and in their own medicine cabinet.

For her Grammy special last night, Katie Couric and rapper Lil Wayne went bowling, and discussed his love of cough syrup and marijuana. She asked the father of two if he’s a good role model. Don’t get ...

MIAMI (CBS4) -- Most parents worry their teens might get involved in illegal drugs. But many don't think about a legal drug kids are using to get high and it could be in your home right now. It's ...