The Government has followed up the recommendation of the Chief Science Advisor Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, signaling that it will move to make pseudoephedrine a Class B2 controlled drug, making it prescription-only and available only from hospital pharmacies.
The ability of doctors to prescribe pseudoephedrine is also likely to be restricted.
That means over the counter sales of cold and flu medicines containing pseudoephedrine will end and you will need a doctor’s note to purchase drugs containing the compound and they will only be prescribed for a narrow range of conditions.
The idea is that this will stop people from “pill shopping” – going from pharmacy to pharmacy to buy enough pills to give them enough pseudoephedrine to produce a batch of methamphetamine.READ MORE
