Coricidin



Coricidin, Coricidin 'D' (decongestant), or CoricidinHBP (for high blood pressure), is the name of a drug marketed by decongestants.

Recreational use

Coricidin is sometimes used in high doses as a recreational drug because it contains the psychoactive drug pseudoephedrine instead of chlorphenamine, rendering the drug safer for recreational users. The majority of reported overdoses and deaths occurred after chlorphenamine was added. Some Coricidin products also contain acetaminophen, which is toxic to the liver in large doses.

Use in popular music

In the 1960s, blues-rock guitarist Duane Allman (1946-1971) of The Allman Brothers Band began using an empty glass Coricidin bottle as a guitar slide, finding it to be just the right size and shape for this purpose. Other prominent slide guitarists, such as Derek Trucks, Rory Gallagher, and Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd adopted the Coricidin bottle as well, but such bottles eventually went out of production in the early 1980s (although replicas have been produced since 1985).[2][3]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ (PMID 7318380)
  2. ^ Planet Blue Productions ....Home of The Real Bottlenecking Company and The Coricidin Slide, Accessed September 11, 2005
  3. ^ Duane Allman (1946 - 1971), September 11, 2005


  • The Third Plateau: Coricidin - emphasis on the effects of abuse
  • Coricidin Trip Report
  • Dextroverse Article on Coricidin
 
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