Hands-Off Our Runny Nose: Meth & Cold Medicine Link

CNS News ^ | March 28, 2005 | Kerri Houston

[cyborg]

Really? Last night on Intervention, they showed a tweaker sticking it in his arm, his hand, nose...all before having anonymous casual sex. Bizarre. I'd be surprised if he doesn't get AIDS.

[Skooz]

I never shot up anywhere but my arms.

I had a friend who would stick it in a vein on his neck, but that was just too much for me.

Meth junkies live in their own Bizzarro World.

[cyborg]

Congrats on being clean for almost 20 years...one day at a time.

[Skooz]

Thank you.

The hardest drug I have done in 20 years is cappucino. Make the stuff myself from ingredients you can buy at the local grocery store. :0)

[LRS]

Part of the problem is the way some defense attorneys have managed to get their clients off by skirting previous laws. Now, unless some fool has ALL the ingredients on hand in his "meth lab", he can skate...

[cyborg]

Food and coffee... I managed to go a whole week without drinking coffee. And you're right, it's as close as the nearest bodega ;-)

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Recipes are easy to find, and ingredients include common household items such as camping fuel, drain cleaner, and pseudophedrine (PSE), And I used to stick that crap in my arm. Geeeesh.

Why would you do that?

[Skooz]

To get a buzz.

[MarkL]

The only thing that helps my occassional sinus headaches are Advil cold & sinus. I've tried other OTC remedies, both name brand and generic, and nothing else seems to work for me. I go through about 2 or 3 packages of the stuff every spring. I hope it's not going to be "going away." Although I have seen cases where some stores are storing the OTC products with pseudo ephedrine behind counters.

Mark

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I am glad that you are off of it.

[DBrow]

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14235115&BRD=1160&PAG=461&dept_id=190958&rfi=6

http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2005/03/28/news/news19.txt

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=44917

http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2005/03/28/opinion/doc424785aa6ac59239023396.txt

I just did a Google news search, on pseudoephedrine, and later one on pse and ammonia. The above links barely scratch the surface.

Lots of activity in several states and in Canada on the cold pill issue, and a few legislators going after anhydrous ammonia.

Everyone opposed better organize and speak up now, or we are going to have a spate of new laws regulating something many take for granted.

[Skooz]

Thank you.

I last did it when I was 25. I am now 45.

It has been a great 20 years.

[MarkL]

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.

As a very infrequent drinker, I recommend taking alcohol off the market.

I can "suffer" without an occassional porter or stout if it saves a few thousand lives...

As a citizen who really doen't have any use for guns, I recommend confiscating all privately owned guns.

It's worth it if it saves zillions of lives...

OK, what else would you like to ban?

Mark

[Uncle Miltie]

Point taken.

Meth sucks. Don't have a good strategery yet....

[Pride in the USA]

"I can no longer find SineAid anywhere. It's the only non-prescription med that ever helped my occasional debilitating sinus headaches. I had no idea what had happened to SineAid until I learned it had pseudophedrine in it."

It is so much easier to punish everybody than to ferret out the real criminals. We all pay for the crimes committed by others one way or another. I am so tired of this.

[TypeZoNegative]

It's always confused me why people do meth. What makes you want to get a buzz so badly, that you're willing to rot your teeth?

We have enough energy drinks, ginseg and b vitamins out there that can give you the energy that meth can give you so why ruin your mouth with that crap?

[wyattearp]

It is so much easier to punish everybody than to ferret out the real criminals. We all pay for the crimes committed by others one way or another. I am so tired of this.

Our local Safeway doesn't put anything with pse on the shelves. Instead it puts a little card on the shelf that looks like the box cover. You take the card to the counter, and the checkout person goes and gets it for you.

It is annoying. The only stuff that works for me is the sudafed (or a generic) with pseudophedrine hydrochloride and triproladine hydroxide (sp?). That's the stuff that you have to jump through the hoops to get.

One of my half-sisters is wacked out on meth. Any time she goes to my Dad's house, he has to lock up all of his valuables. Anything not locked up, turns up missing. She's a totally worthless individual.

[paulat]

Speak for yourself.

Don't go volunteering me just because you have "occasional" needs.

Some of us suffer far more.

[k omalley]

West Virginia has a huge meth problem. Everyday in my town there are meth lab fires and meth lab explosions. Even garbage trucks are exploding from discarded meth materials. Some people running a daycare center were making meth in a back room and it exploded.

Now our legislature has passed a law that you have to sign for medicines containing pseudoephedrine. I understand my cold medicine of choice, Dayquil, contains pseudoephedrine. Now I'll have to sign for it. Hope I don't get too many colds or the vice squad will be after me.

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