KY Urged To Pass Pseudoephedrine Bill

• {Kentucky}...Benjamin B. Tucker, deputy director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, spoke to local leaders at the Kentucky League of Cities annual conference in Lexington on Wednesday. Tucker called for Kentucky lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine to be sold by prescription only. Tucker said his office considers restricting pseudoephedrine to people with prescriptions an effective means of helping to combat methamphetamine, a relatively cheap homemade drug that is widely abused in Kentucky. Under Kentucky law, medications containing pseudoephedrine are kept behind pharmacy counters. The identities of people who purchase them are recorded in an electronic log.