Armchair Chemiker Saint Cough-Syrup pegged as eph head :

"...Über-rock writer Lester Bangs (recently immortalized in Almost Famous), a hard-living scribe who considered Romilar cough suppressant the nectar of the gods, is described in [the Shrine to Saint Cough Syrup's] biography Let It Blurt as speeding on the ?ephedrine-coated wicks inside plastic nasal inhalers.?

The Delphic Wisdoms of the Scions of Saint Cough Syrup.

Armchair chemists advancing the science of cough syrup.