Posted by yxibow on January 22, 2007, at 5:53:17
In reply to Re: Please be civil., posted by KayeBaby on January 22, 2007, at 2:42:28
> >>And in England you also have the option of >signing off for codeine -- that left the US a >long time ago because people were using it for >purposes unintended at doses unintended and >getting ill among other reasons.
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> Nope. That wasn't the reason.
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> It would not be very rational to hold everyone responsible for the actions of a few so I would say that the reason we cannot get certain substances on our signature it that we have allowed ignorant legislatures to pass unfair laws.
Perhaps -- there are a lot of unfair laws.It may not be rational, but you can't buy more than 3.2 grams of Sudafed per day today in the US, and you have to sign special new touch pads under penalty of federal law. The same goes for dextromethorphan, and neither are available for people under 18. So if you're an emancipated minor with bad allergies, you're s.o.l.
And the pharmacies are still so disorganized that you might as well go to the counter because the "cards" that used to be in the places where you could just pick up a 96 of pseudoephedrine are never updated with the behind the counter supply. In fact, you rarely see 96 any more, so you have to pay even more for your pseudoephedrine. And some of them aren't even aware that you can buy up to 3.2 grams until they run your multiple boxes of whatever they happen to have behind the counter.
And that is holding everybody for the actions of a few -- the sheer explosion in the midwest (literally sometimes in meth houses) of illicit methamphetamine production from pseudoephedrine destined for local and large cities, and the serious injuries and deaths of teenagers who have downed Coricidin for DXM s* and giggles.
So we now have phenylephrine (Sudafed PE), otherwise previously known as Neosynephrine, which has been touted as a "great substitute", which by various medical accounts doesn't work at all. And of all absurdity, people of any age, even obvious senior citizens, have to sign for dextromethorphan.
So, how's about them apples. Like it or lump it, the DEA/NIDA is here to stay whether I agree with them or not (which I don't.)-- tidings.
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