Oregon has passed a bill making cold medicines prescription-only
“Oregon would become the first state in the nation to require a doctor’s prescription for many types of cold medicines under a bill overwhelmingly passed Wednesday by the House as part of the Legislature’s attack on the methamphetamine scourge.” (via Serenade in Blue)
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That’s certainly ER friendly. They’re too afraid to ban sudafed, so, no cold-soup for you!
Terrific news for Oregon’s ED’s and urgent care centers. They’ll be doing the proverbial land-offce business.
Soon to come: criminalization of ‘bootlegging’ sudafed in from CA, WA, etc.
GruntDoc
In Oregon, Meth is as big a problem as ETOH is in most other states, so this may be a desperation measure.
I’m glad meth isn’t a huge problem in my state yet. OTOH, the pharmacies seem to have pre-emptively moved pseudofed behind their counters. I bet they’re trying to head off similar desperation measures.
I’m glad Dr Kevin was able to use the article I’d sent him because when I saw this, my jaw hit the floor.
Even the citation in my blog, “Serenade in Blue” caused a lot of my friends to wonder what’s going on…
I seriously can’t imagine bothering my primary care physician (a great guy, btw) so I can get some psuedophed for myself or my spouse.
I can totally get with the idea of having to purchase psuedophedrine, etc., from the pharamcist directly, but thru my primary care physician — uhm… no.
For the record, Portland Oregon has a horrible meth problem. Just about any problem/fuss, etc in the news can almost always be traced back to meth.
The number of meth house bust has gone down (there was one around the corner from us), so obviously the law is working.
But geeze, people, do we really need to go this far?
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