Fraggin' stupid intended side-effects!

[elfs]

We ran out of Children's Sudafed this evening and every store I stopped by to pick some up had either stopped carrying it or had locked it up and nobody on the floor had the key. Washington state has implemented a law making Sudafed a "behind the counter only" medicine, and I have to sign a form whenever I want to buy some. Y'know, I'd rather the people of my state be free to fry their own brains in whatever imaginative way they want than to have to sign a form that nobody will ever see just so my kid doesn't go to bed with a runny nose. Grr...

Any bets Sudafed and Tylenol stop making the children's stuff because it's just too damned hard to sell? And any bets what's left gets more expensive as stores tack on the significantly higher handling fees because it's no longer part of the distribution routine at their end of the supply chain?

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I don't know that Sudafed and Tylenol will stop making the children's versions altogether. There was some question about taking children's aspirin off the shelf altogether when there was a huge rise in the incidence of Reye Syndrome. You now occasionally see it 'prescribed' as a preventative heart medicine.