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Hands-Off Our Runny Nose: Meth & Cold Medicine Link
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| March 28, 2005
| Kerri Houston
Posted on 03/28/2005 11:44:27 AM PST by weekendwarrior
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To: blackdog
If you want to see what it does to people, see "Requium For A Dream" I don't have to. I lived it.
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:01:56 PM PST
by
Skooz
(Host organism for the State parasite)
To: mysterio; Southside_Chicago_Republican
That's big dumb government for you.No kidding. As SCR posted above, what's to keep folks from stopping at every store in town. Apparently, the meth making business is booming in our relatively rural Alabama area. Almost daily you can find an article on a lab blowing up here or a motel room catching fire there - obviously not rocket scientists.
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:02:14 PM PST
by
Quilla
To: weekendwarrior
As an occassional Sudafed user in a Methamphetamine aflicted State (ND), I recommend taking pseudoephedrine off the market.
I can suffer a few sniffles if it saves a few thousand lives.
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:03:05 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Impotent [birthrates] Lazy [unemployment %] Cowardly [Militarily Unprepared] Euroweenies!)
To: Skooz
Years and years ago, we used to buy several dozen Vicks Inhalers and cook them in a frying pan to make "bathtub crystal."Glad you're still with us.
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:03:59 PM PST
by
Quilla
To: Quilla
Only by the grace of God.
Really.
Thanks.
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:04:50 PM PST
by
Skooz
(Host organism for the State parasite)
To: weekendwarrior
News about efforts to stop meth production by taking away access to cold medicine. Worth a look. Oh, pul-eeze!
Yeah, everybody, let's have access to OTC medicines rigidly regulated for all Americans, even though...
Approximately 80% of meth is produced by "super-labs" predominantly in California and along southern border states. Many are operated by Mexican criminal gangs whose extensive trafficking network supplies super-labs with ingredients needed to "cook" the meth.
Instead of just closing the frickin' BORDERS and save billions of dollars to boot!
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:05:31 PM PST
by
MamaTexan
(I LOVE my country, but by I really DETEST my government!!)
To: Quilla
Apparently, the meth making business is booming in our relatively rural Alabama area. Almost daily you can find an article on a lab blowing up here or a motel room catching fire there - obviously not rocket scientists. Same in my small, beautiful county. We are now the meth "kitchen" for the area. Used to be moonshine stills, now it's meth labs.
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:05:57 PM PST
by
najida
(I wish I had Tina Turner's legs, Ann Coulter's brains and Paris Hilton's credit cards.)
To: mysterio
You sure it wasn't stinkeye or the omnipotent evil-eye?
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:06:32 PM PST
by
Waterleak
(I pity the fool)
To: Quilla
The way it works in Oklahoma is that the pharmacist has to take the info from your drivers license and record it in a book they keep. Theoretically, all the info in all the books at all the pharmacies are combined by the State DEA or whatever to see if one person is buying too much.
IMO, by the time they put all that together, the meth is made and out the door. But I can't back that up with facts, and can't know for sure whether it's effective or not.
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:09:42 PM PST
by
savedbygrace
("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
To: Brad Cloven
Speak for yourself. I have no desire to get ear & sinus infections from unnecessary congestion, and I don't particularly care about meth-users' lives, except that they don't end quickly enough for my taste.
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:09:44 PM PST
by
Sloth
(I don't post a lot of the threads you read; I make a lot of the threads you read better.)
To: Numbers Guy
I don't think they took Chlor-trimeton off the market because of WOsD. They already took phenylpropanolamine off the market and they are trying to restrict pseudoephedrine, because they can be used to make Schedule 1 dope.
But Chlor-trimeton is not a chemical that can be used in a tweeker lab recipe.
It's probably competition from Claritin and Alavert et al, in short, a business decision.
I do expect the war on pseudoephedrine to escalate sharply, though. That and anhydrous ammonia, blueprint operation where I work used to get tanks of anhydrous ammonia for some print process and now the DEA wants record keeping of each drop of anhydrous. They switched to another printmaking process rather than face endless scrutiny.
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:11:46 PM PST
by
DBrow
To: weekendwarrior
I know I work in a drugstore photolab, sometimes I have to ring up regular customers and I have to card them to see if they are over 18 to buy cold products plus there are limits to how much you can buy. I'm the biggest proponent of busting meth labs or any illegal drug production and tossing the bad guys in jail but this is way too far.
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:14:57 PM PST
by
Nowhere Man
(I hope you enjoyed your dinner, Terri Schiavo can't. B-()
To: DBrow
It's probably competition from Claritin and Alavert et al, in short, a business decisionOh, it was definitely a business decision, sorry if what I wrote implied otherwise. It's just that after the business decision was made, hoarding the stuff to get through hay fever season was made more difficult for me by the meth hysteria.
That being said, it was a better drug for me than the newer more expensive stuff. They still have the 4-hour Chlor-Trimeton available, but getting up in the middle of the night every night to take a pill during spring/summer isn't much fun. I'm now using Tavist.
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Some of the local drugstores already have cold medicines with pseudephedrine in little locked cases on the shelves with the other stuff. I believe the state law is that a person can't buy more than three packages of these products in one place. Of course, that doesn't keep those stocking up for the meth labs from going from the Walgreens' to the CVS to Wal-Mart, etc. and get all they need.
We are talking about doing that in the drugstore I work at too.
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:17:22 PM PST
by
Nowhere Man
(I hope you enjoyed your dinner, Terri Schiavo can't. B-()
To: savedbygrace
Sounds like a record keeping nightmare for pharmacists and the DEA.
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:19:12 PM PST
by
Quilla
To: Protect the Bill of Rights
Seeing as how Claritin D is a combination of loratidine and pseudoephedrine, instead of just pseudoephedrine, I'd say you don't have to worry. Especially since pseudoephedrine is available all by itself, without the cooks having to worry about splitting the stuff out.
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:19:39 PM PST
by
Tennessee_Bob
(This tagline is Bush's fault.)
To: weekendwarrior
They are talking about Sudefed. The little red sinus pills? I have used them for years. They are excellent for me.
I can't help it if some criminal drug users are using this to make their dope! Why can't law enforcement find and close down the meth clinics instead of making us suffer?
One idea was to closely look at anyone buying Sudefed. Good grief!
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:20:42 PM PST
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: Numbers Guy
After our Sheriff's deputy was killed 2 years ago while investigating a double homicide, our Wal-Mart had it where you had to get it from the pharmacy and sign for it.
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:21:22 PM PST
by
CARDINALRULES
(May I consult the Iraqi Minister of Information before answering?)
To: goldstategop
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:25:35 PM PST
by
Finger Monkey
(H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - do the research, contact your legislators, get this puppy passed.)
To: Protect the Bill of Rights
I cannot live without my Claritan-D. I wonder what the threshold will be before I am flagged as "maybe guilty". Yeesh, I bought two boxes this week.
Well, first I bought the store brand which worked pretty substandardly. Probably my imagination. Then I went an bought the giant sized box of Allavert.
I am probably on a gov't watch list somewhere.
Sheet, I am probably on a couple governement watch lists, come to think of it.
And now they are all sharing information. This could get ugly (=
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posted on
03/28/2005 12:28:44 PM PST
by
riri
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