New meth law restricts sales of over-the-counter drugs
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SPRINGFIELD - Hoping to curtail the illegal production of methamphetamine, Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday signed into law a measure restricting the sale of certain over-the-counter medications that can be used to make the drug.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - An El Paso County deputy coroner is accused of stealing and selling prescription drugs collected from the homes of dead people.  Leon Carl Moynier, 32, was arrested last week on suspicion of distributing prescription drugs.
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The Drug Enforcement Administration yesterday overturned a two-year-old policy that many pain specialists said was limiting their ability to properly treat chronically ill patients in need of powerful, morphine-based painkillers.
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China's food and drug agency announced stricter rules Wednesday for approving new drugs, a day after its former head was executed for accepting bribes to approve untested medicine. The government also ordered small, loosely regulated food producers to clean up their act.
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The government is considering allowing over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill to women 18 and older &#151; a surprise move Monday that revives efforts to widen access to the emergency contraceptive almost a year after it was thought doomed.
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By Mike Peters, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Sep. 11--Q -- I was getting some Children's Motrin at Wal-Mart, and I had to pick it up at the pharmacists' counter, which I understand because of the laws against the manufacture of methamphetamines.
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Internet sales of prescription drugs to U.S. consumers could be banned by Canada if a proposal being drafted by health officials is approved, changes that would essentially kill a &#36;700 million industry that has become increasingly popular with underinsured patients in search of cheaper medicine.
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The maker of Sudafed is offering a new version of the cold and allergy medicine without an ingredient often used to produce the illegal and highly addictive drug methamphetamine in homemade labs.
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Federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh is calling on doctors and pharmacists to stop the &quot;unethical practice&quot; of selling prescription drugs to Americans.
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For the first time in many European countries, nonprescription drugs are being sold over the counter at outlets other than pharmacies.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - There's a whiff of crisis in the air at the Dutch Health Ministry: It's sitting on a pile of pot that it just can't sell.    The Netherlands rolled out a program last year that allows patients to buy prescription marijuana at any pharmacy...
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration proposed a ban Tuesday on over-the-counter sales of skin-lightening products, saying possible health risks cannot justify their being sold without a prescription.
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The nation's pharmacy giants are taking measures to prevent people, especially young people, from using such common over-the-counter medications as cough syrups to get high.
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U.S. regulators said on Wednesday they would crack down on marketing of an unapproved injectable anti-gout drug which has been linked to 23 deaths.
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Abuse of prescription drugs is about to exceed the use of illicit street narcotics worldwide, and the shift has spawned a lethal new trade in counterfeit painkillers, sedatives and other medicines potent enough to kill, a global watchdog warned Wednesday.
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Regulators would get more authority over drugs sold without a prescription under a bill by three Democrats.
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Canadian health officials are drafting a proposal to prevent Internet pharmacies from selling mail-order prescription drugs to U.S. consumers, a spokesman said Wednesday, a move that would essentially kill a &#36;700 million industry that has become increasingly popular with underinsured patients in search of cheaper medicine.