Getting High On Diarrhea Medicine? A New Study Says…

By Dr. Dave HnidaDENVER (CBS4) -Well, that’s a headline for you. And the report about it caught a lot of us off guard. A really strange one that many never heard or even thought of.
Yet new research in the medical journal Annals of Emergency Medicine reports on an increase in the number of cases of people overdosing on diarrhea medicine to get a narcotic buzz.
The ingredient to blame is called loperamide, which is the generic name of the active compound found in the anti-diarrheal drug Imo