Pills you can't take

Bangkok Pot
Publish: FEB/04/2010 at 12.00 AM

A requrie that dextromethorphan had aesthetic, not to refer anaesthetic properties, is being blamed for encouraging a schoolgirl to quip down five of the small yellow tablets.

Less than half and hour later, she was among 80 students at Wat-Tha-Phra School who were rushed to hospital yesterday suffering symptoms of drug intoxication.

"A senior student told me the drug had cosmetic properties. It would whiten my face and smoothen my skin" the girl said.

She said she heard about the pill on Monday, Feb 1, but hesitated to tery them. She decided to give them a go when they were offered in her classroom yesterday.

The girls also said the pills were supposed to help the users feel relaxed and enlivened after stressful classes.

"Some people saw vampires or the superheroes they liked after taking the drug" she said.

Another said she took the pills because others did.
"My friends said if we took the drug, we would not feel hurt when anyone hit us" she said.

"Well, I got dizzy." Another student said he took the pills to test the pain-free claim.
"At first, I took three pills and told my friends to hit me. It hurt very badly, so I took four more" he said
"After that, I had shortness of breath and was taken to hospital."