Mac Miller was addicted to this very dangerous and addictive cocktail back in 2012. The passing of Mac Miller has rocked the music industry, as\u2026<\/b>
\nMac Miller was addicted to this very dangerous and addictive cocktail back in 2012.
The passing of Mac Miller has rocked the music industry, as fans and celebrities mourn the 26-year-old\u2019s highly unexpected and sudden death. His passing is suspected to be stemmed from a drug overdose, although official reports have yet to be announced. But throughout his life, Mac was outspoken about his drug abuse, and at one point in 2012 he was highly addicted to \u201cpurple drank,\u201d also referred to as \u201clean\u201d or \u201csizzurp.\u201d
This drink is made by mixing cough syrup with a fizzy drink, which doesn\u2019t sound as dangerous as it really is. Unfortunately, cough syrup is high in codeine and promethazine, two compounds that can be \u201ceuphoric\u201d and \u201cdissociative,\u201d according to Metro.
At the same time, codeine is known to be addictive, detailed Medicine Net. In fact, if a pregnant woman uses codeine during a pregnancy, the newborn can exhibit opioid withdrawal symptoms. Also, if someone uses codeine for a long time, people can also suffer from withdrawal symptoms. Some of its serious side effects include dangerous respiratory depression, low pressure, and even a fatal overdose at high levels of consumption.
The other compound found in cough syrup, promethazine, can cause serious side effects in some people. This can include breathing that stops for a short time, faintness, irregular heartbeat, and uncontrolled eye and body movements, detailed Medline Plus. Combine that with codeine, and it\u2019s easy to see why purple drank is so dangerous.
What is purple drank, lean or sizzurp? The dangerous drink Mac Miller had been addicted to https:\/\/t.co\/8HHrruljbc
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\u201cI was not happy and I was on lean very heavy. I was so fucked up all the time it was bad. My friends couldn\u2019t even look at me the same. I was lost.\u201d
Mac\u2019s friend Jimmy Murton also revealed how he felt about his friend\u2019s addiction to the cocktail.
\u201cI\u2019ve never really been worried about Mac except during that lean period. I saw him in that mentality I remember being in\u2014you\u2019re getting fucked up because you feel like you need to. You\u2019re trying to get away from everything.\u201d
And it sounded like the addiction was pretty bad, because Jimmy also said that \u201cFor how much he was drinking it\u2019s unbelievable that he stopped. It\u2019s definitely one of the most impressive things he\u2019s ever done.\u201d Luckily Mac was reported to have kicked the lean habit by November 2012.
In Case You Missed It: Rapper Mac Miller dead of overdose at 26 #MacMiller has been open about his trouble with substance abuse including an addiction to powerful cough syrup \u2014 known on the street as purple drank. https:\/\/t.co\/HSxIA3s7Pn
\u2014 SABC News Online (@SABCNewsOnline) September 8,2018
While Mac had addiction issues, he was a prolific artist and was highly successful. Plus, he did it all on his own, and this is how he described it.
\u201cNumber one album, how can you be mad at that? No one can knock what I do because I did it all on my own. There\u2019s no major label. I\u2019m not a fucking put-together product.<\/p>\n

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