Fearful, worried and desperate – one parent felt compelled to distribute photos of her child to as many pharmacies as possible, instructing them not to sell cough syrup to her child.
Fatal liver failure
Learners from Norman Henshilwood High School and Plumstead High School are abusing codeine-based cough syrup to get high. They are believed to be slowly downing bottles of cough syrup mixed with pills such as paracetamol and aspirin, cold drink, crushed sweets and possibly alcohol.