Locked down and anxious, 17-year-old Fang Suyi found her ideal escape from reality in the form of a cough medicine.The high school senior from Shanghai had learned about dextromethorphan, a cough suppressant, while browsing the microblogging platform Weibo. There, now-deleted accounts that tended to make reference to psychosis in their usernames promoted the medicine, peddling its potential as a way of easing anxiety and depression.Convinced by what she read, the teenager first used the oral medication during the citywide coronavirus lockdown in the spring.

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