You all know that, when things come up that make me think, I share them with you ... to get your take, to open up discussion, even just to get your thoughts roving over that topic.
I also needed a real whangdoodle to re-acclimate myself into the blogging world ;-)
Okay, so here's what happened ...
Addie had a cold, which devolved into a sinus infection. You can tell when Addie has a sinus infection ... her face gets swollen and she's all pale with dark circles under her eyes and ... well, you can just tell.
I figured I'd found yet another pro to getting Addie a car ... namely, she could drive herself to the doctor and I would not have to miss work. Score, right?
Maybe not so much ...
So Addie went to the doctor and was told to take Sudafed.
There is no prescription for Sudafed ... and yet you can't buy it unless you're eighteen.
What that meant for poor Addie is that she had to wait ALL DAY for me to get home from work then go to the drug store to buy Sudafed behind the counter at the pharmacy.
I understand that it's a federal law, that meth labs run rampant and that there had to be some sort of crack down. I get that, I totally do ...
But here are my sticking points:
1. Addie is seventeen. She has a license. Surely the pharmacy peeps could have entered her license as easily as they entered mine so they could make sure that someone with her license number isn't buying up Sudafed all over the northeast.
2. How many seventeen-year-olds have you heard of operating meth labs? When you hear about meth operations being busted up (or suspicious fires being caused by cooking meth), the perpetrators are generally in their 30s or 40s. They are virtually never seventeen.
3. If Sudafed needs to be regulated to this degree, perhaps it should be a prescription drug. If Addie had needed Percocet or something, she could have gotten it herself with a prescription backed up by her license. Yup, she could have run amok with a narcotic, but God forbid she take a nasal decongestant ...
4. Finally, Addie's birthday is in September. She's a senior in high school. Yes, that means that she'll be seventeen when she goes to college. Does that mean that I'm going to have to take a trip to D.C. if she gets a sinus infection and needs Sudafed? I suppose I could mail it, but ... if it's illegal for her to buy Sudafed, the idea of mailing it would make me feel decidedly criminal.
I've been doing a lot of thinking on this one, and it seemed a good way to get back to my lovely little blog :-)
Hope everyone is doing well ... I'm off to plan lessons (the two weeks before holiday break necessitate 15 hour workdays for teachers, plus Addie kindly shared her cold ...) after writing a piece for Zelda Lily.
I'll definitely be writing more now that I've broken the seal (or whatever random idiomatic expression you want to use :-)).
Oh, and speaking of Addie, she was quite insistent that I'd committed libel by claiming that her SAT scores were 1750 ... her SAT scores are, in fact, 1850. My apologies, eldest progeny of mine <3
I also needed a real whangdoodle to re-acclimate myself into the blogging world ;-)
Okay, so here's what happened ...
Addie had a cold, which devolved into a sinus infection. You can tell when Addie has a sinus infection ... her face gets swollen and she's all pale with dark circles under her eyes and ... well, you can just tell.
I figured I'd found yet another pro to getting Addie a car ... namely, she could drive herself to the doctor and I would not have to miss work. Score, right?
Maybe not so much ...
So Addie went to the doctor and was told to take Sudafed.
There is no prescription for Sudafed ... and yet you can't buy it unless you're eighteen.
What that meant for poor Addie is that she had to wait ALL DAY for me to get home from work then go to the drug store to buy Sudafed behind the counter at the pharmacy.
I understand that it's a federal law, that meth labs run rampant and that there had to be some sort of crack down. I get that, I totally do ...
But here are my sticking points:
1. Addie is seventeen. She has a license. Surely the pharmacy peeps could have entered her license as easily as they entered mine so they could make sure that someone with her license number isn't buying up Sudafed all over the northeast.
2. How many seventeen-year-olds have you heard of operating meth labs? When you hear about meth operations being busted up (or suspicious fires being caused by cooking meth), the perpetrators are generally in their 30s or 40s. They are virtually never seventeen.
3. If Sudafed needs to be regulated to this degree, perhaps it should be a prescription drug. If Addie had needed Percocet or something, she could have gotten it herself with a prescription backed up by her license. Yup, she could have run amok with a narcotic, but God forbid she take a nasal decongestant ...
4. Finally, Addie's birthday is in September. She's a senior in high school. Yes, that means that she'll be seventeen when she goes to college. Does that mean that I'm going to have to take a trip to D.C. if she gets a sinus infection and needs Sudafed? I suppose I could mail it, but ... if it's illegal for her to buy Sudafed, the idea of mailing it would make me feel decidedly criminal.
I've been doing a lot of thinking on this one, and it seemed a good way to get back to my lovely little blog :-)
Hope everyone is doing well ... I'm off to plan lessons (the two weeks before holiday break necessitate 15 hour workdays for teachers, plus Addie kindly shared her cold ...) after writing a piece for Zelda Lily.
I'll definitely be writing more now that I've broken the seal (or whatever random idiomatic expression you want to use :-)).
Oh, and speaking of Addie, she was quite insistent that I'd committed libel by claiming that her SAT scores were 1750 ... her SAT scores are, in fact, 1850. My apologies, eldest progeny of mine <3
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Glad to see you're posting again.
ReplyDeleteYou underplayed her SAT scores? Shame on you!
ReplyDeleteAs for the Sudafed, we have a similar rule here about paracetamol, in tht no one is allowed to bguy more than one box of 16 at a time. It's to stop people buying 200 and killing themselves...like you couldn't go to several stores/garages etc and get anough that way.
If people want Sudafed for their narcotic's dens, they'll just send an 18 year old, so all this rule does is inconvenience the many for the sake of a few.
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Oh, I hear ya. Due to a back injury from a car accident, I spent 4 years on prescription narcotics. No ID required to pick them up, on more than one occasion when I couldn't drive a friend or family member picked them up for me, and was never asked to show ID.
ReplyDeleteFollowing surgery I got a bad sinus infection and went to get some OTC decongestant. Decided to save a trip & pick up my pain meds at the same time.
I had to show my license & sign my life away to get the decongestant, AFTER they'd handed me the narcotics with not so much as a glance.
Umm... what?!?
I was (and still am) so confused...
It's crazy, huh? There are 2 kinds of Sudafed now, just as there are 2 kinds of NyQuil. It's sad the hoops you have to jump through just to get it because of others.
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