There’s a growing, dangerous trend in New Jersey. It’s called loperamide toxicity. The State Poison Control Center at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark says the drug has a high potential for abuse, misuse and risk of overdose.
Loperamide is usually used to treat diarrhea, said Dr. Diane Calello, director of the New Jersey Poison Control Center. It can be found in common over-the-counter anti-diarrhea medicine such as Imodium. She said if taken properly, loperamide does not have many side effects.
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The CVS has had to start locking them up. Never did I ever think they would be used for this.
So now people need to be babysat because they’re stupid and the rest of us can’t run into a store to pick up meds without 20 questions.
Kathleen Strittmatter right on
Great, now that this article is published, imagine how many more people are going to try this??
I tend to think along the same lines, but doubt that people who are out looking for a high are not sitting around reading the news.
Barbara Heimall true but at least if they actually read the article they’ll know that narcan isn’t the easy fix for this one.
Sammi Gray no hi dose prunes are
Nah, they’ve probably already known about this long before this article
Nothing new sadly
In think The last place they would be is the shitter?
Wtf
Pete Zito exactly my reaction
Ohhh im high as a kite but i cant shit for the next 3 weeks
wait a min. I remember hearing about opioid induced constipation. Why not just do heroin and skip the anti green apple trots meds
That shits not funny.
They must be full of shit.
Emily Covella and this is why it take ten years at the drug store to buy allergy medicine!
Lol that’s exactly what I thought of when I read this.
Like on purpose? Smh
You cant make this crap up
It’s been on rare occasions that this has happened. The first major case of this was in PA about a year ago. It takes a very high dose.
From 2010 to 2011, there was a 10-fold increase in loperamide abuse according to a 2013 study. Seven patients died during their initial
hospital admission
At least you won’t shit yourself when you overdose. Hell, might not even shit for the next 6 months.
Jason DeCarlo omg lmao
People have literally lost their shit. Wtf ??♀️
No shit ?♂️
After Tide Pods…..nothing should surprise you
Jay Zimmerman need to remove warning labels and let the morons weed themselves out
Patrick Brennan or the inhuman ones
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5637705/
Nathan Conway now that we can’t fix
Oh lord
Sounds like its working itself out
Nikki Rose browns mills was doing this years ago ?
Meredith Cullari haha. We’re so behind Burlington.
Please don’t start locking up this medicine. Some of us need it just to survive with certain diseases.
Lynne Marie
I have Crohns and need this medicine to live!
Ocean County Scanner News me too
Just because some are stupid we all must suffer??
Lynne Marie my son has IBS and this situation has made it very hard to find the medication. Walmart shelves are always wiped out, and you can only get a pack of 36 at Costco. That’s about a week’s worth when he has to work. Very frustrating.
Lisa Petrick Thomson I’m always getting mine at rite aid. Their brand but I’ve noticed it’s harder to find too.
Fucking junkies ruining everything
Patrick Brennan more like non empathetic humans ruining everything
Annette Crawford Hall tough shit. We are not the ones running around overdosing on regular medication and making it hard for everybody else to buy medicine when they need it because we’re not junkies
Annette Crawford Hall, so other people should be inconvenienced because of those idiots? Screw them.
Sue MacDonald Kyak you wanna screw them?
They obviously dont want help, mark them like dead dead and have someone come around every few days to dispose of them
Now you’ll have to show ID just to by diarrhea medicine!
Ocean County Scanner News I sure hope to god no one gets the shits in public, and leaves their wallet in the car.
Run out to the store when you have the runs…..then have to run to the car to get ID……that won’t end well.
Ocean County Scanner News I just ranted about that on FB lol.
Just go to taco bell
Wow. Wtf
When there intestines twist an knot up they will learn
that is now the drug combination of choice, Popeyes and a bottle of Immodium, all fun and games until they explode..
Enough of this shit already.
It definitely causes severe brain damage to those with shit for brains
That’s a bunch of shit!
What a crappy story…
They’ll start regulating it like allergy medicine with pseudoephedrine. “Hey bro, run over to CVS and buy me some Imodium AD, I used up my monthly limit when I had the shits. And don’t forget they need your drivers license.”
Awkward.
Chris Denisewicz I’m dying ?????
No shit !!! lol, need I say more !!!
It’S a DiSeAsE
Chris Defrancis it drives me nuts when people say that
Michael Anthony Iccutnas it’s just stupidity at this point
Michael Anthony Iccutnas then go nuts because it is
I feel like we should let natural selection take over at this point
Chris Defrancis I agree
Chris Defrancis yes pleasseeeee. There is a such thing as water toxicity too. They gonna lock that up? I remember the NyQuil trend in high school
Chris Defrancis I’ve felt like that for a while now. If their life’s goal is to get high and die in Wawa bathroom, go for it. An actual disease doesn’t give you the option to chose when and where to have it.
Patrick Romano exactly, if I see it, I’m minding my business, they chose this life, deal with it
Chris Defrancis right!!
Patrick Romano still a disease
Scott A Barnes
Scott A Barnes
Scott A Barnes
Scott A Barnes nope. Cancer is a disease, you can’t decide you don’t want it one day. Diseases are optional
Scott A Barnes diseases are not optional.
I wish my grandfather chose to not have cancer
Twice***
Fuckem leave them don’t waste your emotions and thoughts on scum that does this to themselves.
Michael Anthony Iccutnas sum…real nice
Who knew shit medicine had opioids in it…wow.it only makes sense that this medicine clogs your shitter.
old news
Because they have shit for brains!
We are all screwed. Stock up now…..it’s inevitable ?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1770067/
Kimberly Torode even better then what we read yesterday
Sounds pretty shity
I can’t … I just can’t …
(Somewhere between laughing and crying)
This really isn’t new
What the fuuuu.
Linda Andrews Giordano
Too much idle time on their hands. Go do something constructive.
Ok folks drug addiction is no joke people are dying ..we attack otc drugs..pull this don’t sell that etc .. we are so worried about health yet… yet where’s the fight for the real killer…fast food Burger King onion rings 980 mgs salt whopper 1530 mgs salt Big mac salt 1007 mgs pizza hut supreme pizza 2110 mgs salt
Andrew Howard well they post their nutritional info like right on their menus, right? What do you think should be done?
Steph VanPelt its posted on paper place mats at the locations or posters… its killing our kids… explain why so much salt is needed in fast food???? the government should regulate it that’s something the FDA should exam… again lets all get obese.. with High blood pressure and high cholesterol it only keeps the doctors and drug CEO’S in BMW’s
Then don’t eat there. Simple. Is someone abducting people and forcing them to eat cheesebyrgers!?
Andrew Howard
Nobody is being forced to eat fast food. It’s a choice. Many people don’t make good choices.
Ya can’t fix stupid!
Shitty way to shit the bed
Uh…why would you take that for recreational purposes? Ew
I say let them
No shit!
Renee Rice
Jason Cappetta um whaaaaaat
Such a shitty situation here
Tim Ber there’s nothing shitty about it if u load up on that stuff you won’t shit for a month lol
What a way to go..
Now who’s full of sh#t ? ???
Your shitting me ?
OMG
How do junkies figure this stuff out?
Rob Stewart mr bob gets free publicity
Da fuk
Isn’t this some sh&t
So they are full of shit?
That’s a shitty way to die
Pathetic
Holy shit well I guess not.
Get off on life, and stop living your life suicidal
How fuckin stupid is these people. We are beyond fucked with these asshole degenerates
Matt McGrady
Some people can actually abuse it because of eating disorders, (not in those high doses), and it can really affect them, so it’s not funny to some people.
Amy Plummer anti diarrheal medications? Are you sure you’re not thinking of laxatives?
Lauren Inghill you’re right! I was a bit tired when i read this ..oops!
…and this is our future…
I just can’t take all the stupidity. Dam thin the herd.
Omg…what next…
James JohnsonJarett KrauseMonito GN GarcíaMonito Garcia GN
Ryan Lawson why they your ports potty’s
Ocean county be James Johnson
I dont have them why they use are company for the pics
Ryan… wtf is this ??!? Why did they use pics of Mr. Bobs Portable Toilets… which… by the way… for all your portable toilet needs call Mr. Bobs today!!
WTF
Oh ffs
Stacey Powers seriously!!??!! WTF can that possibly do for someone
So?
They’ve been doing that…not a new thing
?NO CHIT!
I shit you not!
Unfortunately using this is becoming common for High School kids looking to catch a buzz so let’s not start wishing and hoping for children to drop dead. If natural selection always worked no one who went through puberty would be here.
Pulitzer winning photo here… really captures the emotional elements of the story.
Ted Durante it’s a shitty picture.
Holy shit!???
Natural selection at it best!
Well in that case the whole state is full of ?with no end in sight !!
Why not just have the shits and get it over with. Your body clearly is trying to get rid of something quickly. Why try to keep it in.
Wait, what?
Kinda shitty
just stupid no warning label ?
Thin the herd.
Lol! I see what you did there.
Michael Casey interesting
Megan Brutko ??♀️