POPPED BY PILLS - Tracking System Supposed to Limit Purchases
The law that tripped up Trollinger involves pseudoephedrine
Posted: March 7, 2010 at 6:36 a.m.
COUNTER CONUNDRUM - Boxes of cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine are kept behind a counter at Lowell Pharmacy. When a customer purchases the drug they must be checked in to a computer system to keep methamphetamine producers from buying the product.
Marc Trollinger walked into his local pharmacy on Jan. 9 wanting allergy medicine. He went through the usual routine, providing his driver’s license and signing the logbook, then paying and walking out with his loratadine-d.
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