Last May there were a number of media articles on the growth in the number of illegal methamphetamine labs resulting in Kentucky, Indiana, and nine other states starting to approve legislation restricting access to hundreds of popular over-the-counter cold and allergy medicines. Indiana was reported as leading the area in “meth lab incidents” with 1,002 in 2004; Kentucky had 562, and Ohio 211.
Some local & national retailers began taking action in advance of the new laws restricting public access by moving medicines like Sudafed and Claritin-D into their pharmacies rather than selling them from the aisles.
Kentucky’s new law in response to this went into effect yesterday, with Indiana’s next month.
An article in this morning’s Enquirer reported that restrictions similar to those in Kentucky and Indiana had been dropped from Ohio’s appropriations budget bill. Senate Bill 53, however, introduced in back in February, shadows the above trend.
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