Addict-Unfriendly Sudafed
October 25th, 2005 at 9:20 am
October 25th, 2005 at 9:20 am
I got a cold from my older twin over the weekend, and it started blowing up on me yesterday. Compounding the issue was Halliburton’s Bossier City turning on the furnace and blowing dust around.
This morning I pulled into the gas station and bought the new Sudafed PE nasal & sinus decongestant. The college-age clerk asked for my ID as a joke, and I said sure, since I so have the body shape of a meth addict! 
Louisiana and several other states have taken the old standby off the shelves because it’s used to make methamphetamines.
I took it an hour and a half ago. With the active ingredient, phenylephrine, the new Sudafed seems kindler, gentler…and less able to clear out my sinuses, of course.
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March 7th, 2006 at 11:05 pm
[...] If California can’t limit the sale of pseudoephedrine on its own, then it’s the state’s own fault. Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and other states have already passed legislation to push Sudafed under the counter. It is not a local jurisdiction issue in those areas. One quart of ether, another ingredient, holds the explosive power of several sticks of dynamite, said Sgt. Jason Grellner of the Franklin County, Mo., Narcotics Enforcement Unit, which has seized 600 meth labs since 1998 in a jurisdiction of 100,000 people. [...]