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9月25日 Claritin AdventureWhen did it get so difficult to buy over-the-counter cold medicine? About six months ago, Ohio passed a law that required stores and pharmacies to place all medicine containing pseudoephedrine as the sole active ingredient behind the counter at the drug store. The drug can only be sold to consumers 18 and older and you are limited to purchasing no more than nine grams – approximately three 24-tablet packages – within a 30-day period. Retailers are now required to keep log books tracking the sale of pseudoephedrine products. The purpose of this law is to prevent people from buying large quantities of these products and using them to manufacture meth amphetamine. I knew that the law was passed back in April, but I never really thought much about the new law until Saturday afternoon.
I was at Wal-Mart on Saturday and had to buy some Claritin for Hubby. Hubby and I both have some allergy and sinus problems, so I've bought cold medicine in the last six months but this is the first time since the new law went into effect that I've bought any kind of cold medicine at Wal-Mart. In the past, I've bought it at Kroger, Walgreens, or CVS. They have procedures that you need to follow, but not nearly as severe as the ones I ran into at Wal-Mart. At Wal-Mart, the Claritin is kept behind the counter, so you have to get it from the pharmacist. Nothing unusual there. They required that I pay for it there at the pharmacy counter. Again, nothing unusual there, but they normally only do that if you are purchasing a prescription. They asked for my driver's license to verify my age. Okay, that's a little odd. Funny that I get carded for buying cold medicine, but not for buying alcohol. Then they asked me to sign a log book - just like if I were picking up a regular prescription. Okay, now that's a lot odd.
I agree that we need to get rid of the meth labs and get this horrible drug off the street, but have we gone just a little too far on this? I can understand the need to put the stuff behind the counter and have the pharmacist get it for us, but to pass a law that limits the amount of an over-the-counter non-prescription drug that I can buy? And before the store will sell me the over-the-counter non-prescription drug, it has to check their records to make sure that I haven't bought more than three packages of the stuff from them in the last 30 days. Is it me, or does all this sound a little odd to you? If we're going to go to this extreme and make consumers jump through all these hoops, why don't we just make pseudoephedrine a drug that you can only get by prescription only? Wouldn't that eliminate the problem?
Like I said, I never thought much about the law before Saturday. But now it's on my mind a lot. Funny how something as simple as buying cold medicine could cause so much fuss. 评论 (8)
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