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As of this week pharamacists in Victoria are under new guidelines regarding the sale of pseudoephedrine, the active ingredient in the production of methylamphetamines.
Front page Herald Sun article:
Crackdown targets drug gang scam
Also in the Herald Sun, articles on suburban meth labs:
Drug labs 'time bombs' in suburbs
Raiders face perilous task
Equivalent article from The Age:
Chemists join anti-drugs campaign
The gist of it all being:
Front page Herald Sun article:
Crackdown targets drug gang scam
Also in the Herald Sun, articles on suburban meth labs:
Drug labs 'time bombs' in suburbs
Raiders face perilous task
Equivalent article from The Age:
Chemists join anti-drugs campaign
The gist of it all being:
GANGS working for criminal drug syndicates are emptying chemist shops of millions of dollars worth of cold and flu tablets to brew illegal amphetamines.
But a crackdown on the drug scam, beginning this week, will make packets of the tablets harder to buy.
Pharmacists will have to satisfy themselves that a customer has a legitimate need for the tablets.
And police will immediately respond to reports of suspicious sales.
The sophisticated criminal operations involve gangs of buyers known as "runners", who pinpoint pharmacies on maps and methodically buy packets of cold, flu and allergy tablets containing pseudoephedrine.
In one day, up to six runners can visit 30 pharmacies and buy up to 90 packets of pseudoephedrine tablets.
These can be used to produce kilograms of amphetamines worth about $180,000 on the street.
- from the headline Herald Sun article
Also from today's Age, an article on the mixing of Viagra and ecstasy by male 'nightclubbers'.
Clubbers' cocktail may be dangerous