Talk:Paregoric

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Just wanted to know if perigoric had any mental effects on adults whose parents used it frequently on them.

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I too am looking for information about the long term effects of paregoric on the children who were given it. My infant uncle died of a paregoric overdose given him by his hired caregiver. So death was a very possible worst case scenario. Narcotic addiction and developmental damage would seem assured with regular abuse of this in infants. I would like to find information about this too. -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.187.207.76 (talk) 00:38, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

unless you were spoonfed a liter a day, that big mac or the air you are the breathing has done more damage --Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade 07:35, 17 June 2006 (UTC) --- comparing the effects of an adult eating one big mac to a baby being addicted to opium is ludicrous.

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My memories of Paregoric are from the late fifties and earlier sixites when mothers would use this to ease the pain of teething babies. They would dab it on their fingers and rub it on the gums of the baby. The liquid was deep amber and smelled pleasantly of alcohol, camphor and oil of anise. It could be purchased from the druggist by adults. A bottle would last a long time. Some adults on the fringe would buy it for the intoxicating effects and consume the whole bottle in a sitting.

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When was paregoric taken off the counter? I knew several older/younger women who more or less lived on it.

Lrkneupper 15:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Paregoric is mentioned in the book Rocket Boys. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.202.49.116 (talk) 06:06, 7 October 2007 (UTC)