A 17-year old shows how easy it is to get narcotics in Illinois:
Though you need to show a photo ID to buy cold medicine in Illinois, addictive medications can be obtained with nothing more than an easily faked prescription slip. Pharmacists aren’t legally obligated to verify an order is genuine, and tamper-proof prescription pads, a security measure used in other states, are not required here.
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Tell me about it. I just filled a scrip for a narcotic, and decided to pick up some sudafed. Guess which one got me the evil eye, as I handed over my id for the clerk to enter into a handwritten log.
My sixteen year old daughter was upset because she was refused sudafed because she was not 18 and was told to have her mother come back and get it for her.
“My sixteen year old daughter was upset because she was refused sudafed”
What a tragedy…right up there with Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami…
It’s just stupid to refuse a sixteen year old a single pack of Sudafed. Nobody said it was the end of the world, the point is she could have picked up, say, her mother’s oxycontin without getting any grief about her age at all.
What prompted the jerky response?
As part of our nation’s “War On Drugs,” the law enforcement agencies, around this country, have decided to ’shelve’ Sudafed – as it is an essential ingredient in the manufacture of methamphetamine.
This has resulted in an increased production and importation of ‘meth’ from abroad [ Mexico, for one ].
No one knows if this strategy will work, but some ‘experts’ who follow these issues feel that it will not. At least, we should hope for fewer injuries from meth lab explosions.
And an increase in rhinnorhea.
Wm. Mangino M.D.
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