pseudoephedrine

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DEA Insists New Form Of Pseudoephedrine In Cold Medicine Can Be Used In Meth-Making

A cold and allergy decongestant sold nationwide has a new form of pseudoephedrine that some say makes it trickier to make methamphetamine from, but the Drug Enforcement Administration is saying uh-uh, you can still cook with that stuff and it shouldn’t be sold over the counter. [More]

Grandmother Arrested For Buying Cold Medicine Twice In One Week

Grandmother Arrested For Buying Cold Medicine Twice In One Week

Last March, Sally Harpold bought a box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine for her husband, then a few days later bought a box of Mucinex-D cold medicine for her grown daughter. That put her over the limit for how much pseudoephedrine-laced cold meds you can buy in a week in her small Indiana town, so she was arrested along with 16 other potential meth makers earlier this month.