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HOW TO MAKE METH SIMPLE DRUG STORE INGREDIENTS MAKE METH A REAL PROBLEM
PSEUDOEPHEDRINE
C10H15NO
COMMON HOUSEHOLD
INGREDIENTS
=
+
Found in cold tablets
Pseudoephedrine
C10 H15 NO
+
METHAMPHETAMINE
C10H15N
ETHER - found in engine starter fluid
AMMONIA NITRATE - found in cold packs
LITHIUM - foundHousehold
in lithium batteries
Common
H2O - ordinary tap water
Ingredients
=
Methamphetamine
C 10H15 N
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Starter
Fluid
prescription-only. Other states keep the
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wanted to make
common cold medicine behind the counter
Oregon’s success story a national reality,
under a 2006 federal law, but when Oregon
announcing legislation in 2010 for federal
and Mississippi implemented prescription
prescription regulation of pseudoephedrine.
legislation, meth lab incidents immediately
But according to Mother Jones, he never
Ether - Found in engine starter fluid
plummeted. Dozens of other states
haveNitrate
tried- Found
introduced
the bill in Congress, in
Ammonia
in cold packs
Meth
to follow
their
lead,
but the pharmaceutical
part because
Lithium - Found in lithium
batteries of “heavy industry
Found
in cold
tablets
Waterspending.” — Katy Hall
industry isn’t having it.
BIG PHARMA VS. REGULATION PRESCRIPTION LEGISLATION OF PSEUDOEPHEDRINE
MISSISSIPP-I
RESCRIPTIOINNE
P
S
T
N
E
M
E
L
P
IM
DOPHEDR
ONLY FOR PSEU
OREGON
MISSISSIPPI
0F METH LABS
R
E
B
M
U
N
0
0
10
900
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
200
0
200
3
2
O R EG O N
SCRIPTIONE
R
P
S
T
N
E
M
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