Post by Logan on Feb 4, 2016 3:29:07 GMT -6
Indiana lawmakers advance bills to give pharmacists discretion on cold medicines
Indiana lawmakers passed similar, competing bills Wednesday aimed at giving pharmacists the ability to prevent methamphetamine cooks from buying pseudoephedrine, a common ingredient in the illegal drug.
In the Senate, Republican Randy Head’s proposal to allow pharmacists to turn down suspicious customers who attempted to buy the medicine passed 41-8.
“This bill is necessary and this bill can work,” said Head, from Logansport. “People give up their jobs, they give up their families and they give up their children as slaves to methamphetamine.”
The House passed a measure 92-7 that would allow pharmacists to ask for a prescription if they suspected a customer was going to make meth.
Read more: www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/03/indiana-lawmakers-advance-bills-give-pharmacists-discretion-cold-medicines/79790208/
Indiana lawmakers passed similar, competing bills Wednesday aimed at giving pharmacists the ability to prevent methamphetamine cooks from buying pseudoephedrine, a common ingredient in the illegal drug.
In the Senate, Republican Randy Head’s proposal to allow pharmacists to turn down suspicious customers who attempted to buy the medicine passed 41-8.
“This bill is necessary and this bill can work,” said Head, from Logansport. “People give up their jobs, they give up their families and they give up their children as slaves to methamphetamine.”
The House passed a measure 92-7 that would allow pharmacists to ask for a prescription if they suspected a customer was going to make meth.
Read more: www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/03/indiana-lawmakers-advance-bills-give-pharmacists-discretion-cold-medicines/79790208/