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THE LEAN ERA, THE BODIES IT LEFT, AND CODEINE'S QUIET ROLE IN THE CRISIS
It Started As A Cough Medicine
Something A Doctor Could Hand You
Purple In The Bottom Of A Foam Cup
Slow And Sweet And Easy To Love
It Put Some Of The Loudest Voices In Music To Sleep
Some Of Them Never Woke Up Again
This Is The Dark Side
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THE DRINK THAT SOUNDED HARMLESS 🥤
Lean Is Prescription Cough Syrup Turned Into A Drink
The Active Mix Is Codeine And Promethazine
Codeine Is A Weak Opioid That Calms Pain And Quiets A Cough
Promethazine Is An Antihistamine That Pulls You Toward Sleep
People Pour It Over Soda Like Sprite And Drop In A Jolly Rancher
The Purple Color Gave It The Name Purple Drank
It Also Goes By Sizzurp And Syrup & Dirty Sprite
The Drink Was Born In Houston
Long Before It Was Famous
Blues Musicians In The Sixties Mixed Cough Syrup Into Their Beer
By The Nineties The Recipe Had Moved To Codeine Syrup
A Houston Legend Named DJ Screw Made It The Sound Of A City
His Slowed Down Mixtapes Matched The Way The Drink Felt
In The Year Two Thousand Three Six Mafia And UGK Took It National
The Song Was Called Sippin On Some Syrup
Suddenly A Cough Medicine Was A Lifestyle
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WHAT THE NUMBERS ACTUALLY SAY 📊
Here Is Where The Sweet Image Breaks
Codeine Kills The Same Way Every Opioid Does
It Slows Your Breathing Until It Stops
The Real Danger Is Almost Never One Thing Alone
DJ SCREW ☞ Died In Two Thousand From A Codeine Overdose Ruled Alongside Mixed Drugs (Houston Medical Examiner)
PIMP C ☞ Found Dead In Two Thousand Seven From Codeine And Promethazine With Sleep Apnea As A Factor
THE MECHANISM ☞ Respiratory Depression Is What Actually Ends It
THE MULTIPLIER ☞ Mixing With Alcohol Or Other Depressants Raises The Risk Sharply
1999 TO 2022 ☞ More Than Seven Hundred Thousand Opioid Overdose Deaths In The US (CDC)
2022 ALONE ☞ More Than Eighty Thousand Opioid Involved Deaths In One Year (CDC)
THE CAVEAT ☞ A Clean Codeine Only Death Count Is Not Reliably Broken Out
The Bottle Looks Mild Until You Mix It With Another Depressant
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THE QUIET GLOBAL GATEWAY 🌍
It Is Easy To Blame Codeine For Everything
That Would Not Be Honest
The American Crisis Was Driven By Oxycodone Then Heroin Then Fentanyl
Codeine Was Never The Main Engine
Still It Played A Quieter Part
Codeine Is The Most Widely Used Opioid On Earth
It Sits In Cough And Cold Medicine In Pharmacies Worldwide
In Many Countries You Could Once Buy It Without A Prescription
That Easy Access Made It An Entry Point Not An Endpoint
It Is A Prodrug Your Liver Turns Into Morphine
The Same Receptor Codeine Touches Is The One Heroin Floods
A Body That Learns To Like The Weak One Gets Primed For The Strong One
Codeine Rarely Started The Fire
It Helped Teach The Match How To Strike
Across This Series Codeine Wore A Gentle Face
A Cough Drop, A Childhood Syrup, A Pharmacy Shelf
That Respectability Was Always The Trap
The Drug You Never Feared Is The One You Never Watched
Gentle Was Never The Same As Safe…
