Abuse rates initially dropped by two-thirds after the pseudoephedrine regulations went into effect.
The problem some legislators are facing is the abuse of the drug pseudoephedrine, the active ingredient in a number of cold medicines.
Even more confusing to the consumer is that the phenylephrine is often sold under the same brand name as controlled pseudoephedrine products.
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But two states, Mississippi and Oregon, decided to go a step further and mandate that products with pseudoephedrine be sold by prescription only.
As a result, 12 states have moved to an electronic-tracking system that alerts pharmacists so they can stop people from buying more than the legal limit of pseudoephedrine.
The chemical structure of phenylephrine is somewhat similar to pseudoephedrine.
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Alminova, who clocked the fastest time in the world for four years at that Diamond League meeting, only returned from a three-month ban for taking pseudoephedrine on 8 July.
In 2005 Mexico virtually outlawed ephedrine and pseudoephedrine.
In discussing this paper in October, I expressed my concerns that any resulting efforts to make pseudoephedrine a prescription product would further restrict one of the remaining useful decongestants from legitimate sale to consumers.
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How does this compare to pseudoephedrine?
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They stopped selling tobacco products in 1996, and were the first national retailer to voluntarily decide to place all cough, cold and allergy products containing Pseudoephedrine (PSE) behind the pharmacy counter (which is good for mankind but a pain for me since I am an allergy sufferer, but I support it of course).
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