pseudoephedrine
Noun
Meaning
poisonous crystalline alkaloid occurring with ephedrine and isomorphic with it
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Common culprits include antidepressants, antihistamines, narcotic pain medications, alcohol, birth control pills, chemotherapy medicines, and over-the-counter cold medications that contain pseudoephedrine.
Once widely available, methamphetamine became harder to come by after federal laws went into effect in 2005 that restricted the sale of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine.
As such, the Health Inspector on Ambergris Caye has been visiting stores confiscating medication with pseudoephedrine content.
Canadian and U.S. law enforcement authorities announced more than 100 arrests Thursday of persons involved in illegal trafficking in pseudoephedrine, a chemical used in the manufacture of the street drug methamphetamine.
The days of bringing pseudoephedrine to Mexico in barrels seem over, but shipments involving hundreds of thousands of pills from the generic drug industries of India and Bangladesh are still found.
They still sell pseudoephedrine over the counter (but behind the counter) over there.