The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Congress poised to pass anti-meth law on sale of cold medicines

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cold remedies that can be used by drug dealers to make methamphetamine would be placed behind store counters under legislation Congress is poised to pass by year's end. Lawmakers ...
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier

Meth ingredients as common as a cold

And for a meth cooker, he contends pseudoephedrine is like flour for a bread baker: If it can't be acquired, it can't be substituted. It takes 600 to 700 pseudoephedrine tablets to make a gram of meth ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

New law turns cold shoulder to meth manufacturers

SPRINGFIELD -- Statewide restrictions on the sale of certain medications for colds could make it harder for illegal drug makers to head to Chicago to get large quantities of the ingredients they need ...
The Times and Democrat

Support grows for federal limit on sale of meds used to make meth

WASHINGTON The days of buying some cold remedies off the shelf in drug stores soon may be gone, a casualty of the methamphetamine epidemic. Already more than a dozen states have laws that require ...
Sioux City Journal

Hy-Vee restricts access to some over-the-counter cold medicines in an effort to curb meth making

Siouxland Hy-Vee and Drug Town pharmacies are among the chain's stores that restricted access Thursday to some over-the-counter cold medicines in an attempt to make it harder for drug dealers to make ...