Worst drug I've ever taken?

Actifed, hands down. The combination of Chlorotrimiton and Sudafed is horrific for me. I disassociate and get disoriented--and this was on the OTC version, not the prescription version!

I got put on the prescription version for significant problems with hay fever in high school. It so seriously disoriented me that I thought I was going crazy. It's the Chlorotrimiton part that nails me, bad. In college I discovered Dimetapp, then Benadryl. Benadryl going OTC was one of the best things ever that happened to me, because it worked even better than Dimetapp without drowsiness (I'm one of the 25% who can take Benadryl without excessive drowsiness and it works for me in low doses).

I don't even think you can get Actifed any more, and Chlorotrimiton isn't very popular (except as a secondary ingredient in some children's allergic and cold treatments. Chlorophenaramine maleate is the generic name).

Probably the relaxant pill that was supposed to help me sleep when I had horrible headaches but instead kept me up all night and with cottonmouth besides.

But mostly I've never really taken any drugs aside from non-steroidal anti-inflammatory painkillers.

Tramadol. It makes me drunk (as in I couldn't get up the stairs), and I think there might even have been a hallucination in there somewhere. Although I'm not sure about that because I was watching Batman Begins on DVD when I discovered this.

I have a laundry list of drugs I have to avoid, though. Tramadol just happens to be at the top of it.

Thanks for the link to the Bonus Army comparison. I've been quietly suggesting to my local Occupy that if they can hang on for spring, planting gardens would be a brilliant way of pointing out how legislation at the city and state levels prevents people from using the land they own to support themselves - and a way of showing how self-reliant they are, unlike the stereotype, which is so antiproductively wrong, you know?

Tom Tomorrow nailed the stereotype problem in a comic titled "What do they want?"

But also, I don't think enough media time has been spent on the ways in which Occupy sites echo Hoovervilles. I even met my first traveling-from-Occupy-to-Occupy-while-looking-for-work people yesterday.

oh, and oxycodone. I can see clearly now how it might have contributed to Limbaugh's hyperbolism, because that junk makes me almost as emotionally crosswired, prone to explosions of various emotional types, and shadow-boxery as chemo did. It still seems to be a drug of choice for outpatient surgery recovery, but I won't take it again, not even if it means just me and a couple of ibuprofen against post-op abdominal pain. :(

Naproxen, by contrast, just makes me spit non sequentuur. It's bearable, if impossible to work with in the run-up to elections for city council :P