Before i explain this i want to let you know that i don't have video proof but by simply doing it the old way you can test it.
yesterday i was searching and found this guy he wanted to go in with just us 2 so i said yes. well we started played through it a bit and i pretty much said oh crap forgot about the timer lol. so he said just do the medicine glitch i said what, he explained to me that it still worked.
to do it you simply copy the old method but there is no indication that it actually pauses the timer here is what it does now, and no it doesn't pause the timer but still works.
you use it and drop it, the timer seems to pause for about 2 minutes then start ticking down while your medicine is on cool down and i did not realize that it wasn't working until about 15 minutes remained. i can confirm that you can still imitate the medicine glitch but it doesn't actually work.
why make this thread, because the fact that your medicine is on cool down while the timers ticking is still a bug and could possibly impact someone someday. you guys need to make it so that you cannot use and drop it like you still can.