FDA: Some drug users look to anti-diarrhea meds to get high

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSTM) — The Food and Drug Administration is taking new steps to curb the abuse anti-diarrhea medication by asking manufacturers to change the way it’s packaged.
Loperamide is an over-the-counter medication taken to ease the symptoms of diarrhea. The recommended dose is just four tablets per day, but Dr. Jeanna Marraffa at the Upstate New York Poison Center says some people are taking much more than that.
“30, 40, even hundreds of pills…to get a high, or t