Cold Pill Legislation Pending in the Missouri legislature

The Springfield, MO News-Leader posted an article on their website announcing that Missouri has a bill now pending in the legislature that would require Missouri families to get a doctor's prescription for any cold medication containing the decongestant pseudoephedrine.

According to the News-Leader, you can currently go to your local pharmacy and purchase up to 9 grams pf pseudoephedrine every 30 days. That would be about two 15-dose boxes of Claritin-D or six 24-dose boxes of Sudafed.

If this bill passes, you have to go to your doctor - or the local hospital e.r. or the stand alone emergent care facility to get a prescription for the cold pills you have been using up to now without going through this new drill.

Just think of it. If the bill passes and you have a medical problem more serious than a cold, you will get to wait in a waiting room packed with folks sniffing and sneezing with their cold. And all of this is in the name of the war on drugs. I can only shake my head in disbelief.

If you want to register either your approval or disapproval of this pending legislative action, contact your local member of the Missouri House of Representatives.


You can read the News-Leader's article at http://tinyurl.com/cjoao3