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Some people have been using high doses of loperamide to ease opioid-withdrawal symptoms; others have abused the drug in an effort to get high.

They rely on loperamide to be able to work or travel.

Although the cause of death couldn't be definitively reached in either case, it added that “postmortem toxicology suggest that loperamide likely precipitated both deaths.”

Loperamide, the generic name for the anti-diarrheal agent involved, is sometimes referred to as “the poor man's methadone.”

People with addiction problems increasingly are turning to loperamide, experts say, as prescription opioids become harder to obtain because of changes in legislation and regulation.