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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Ind. Law - Methamphetamine regulation has big loophole - other states with less restriction

The South Bend Tribune has an AP story by Ryan Lenz today that begins:

RISING SUN, Ind. -- When Indiana restricted the sale of over-the-counter cold medicines this year, pharmacist Dan Beyer suddenly found himself a front-line defender in the state's war against methamphetamine.

But the drug producers the law aimed to choke out have sidestepped its reach by stockpiling supplies in states that don't limit sales of pseudoephedrine, a popular ingredient in meth.

"They're going to the places with the least resistance," said Beyer, who owns the Rising Sun Pharmacy 15 miles outside Ohio, which does not restrict pseudoephedrine sales.

"If we're going to do all this work and all they have to do is cross a river, we've accomplished absolutely nothing," he said.

The story is accompanied by this map showing restrictions by state.

Here are links (12/27/05 and 12/28/05) to ILB entries on a 3-part Louisville Courier Journal series on meth resriction published late last year. See also this entry from 9/8/05 pointing out defects in the law Indiana law.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 11, 2005 12:44 PM
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