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04-22-2004, 05:33 PM
Legislation that would have required minors to get a prescription before buying certain cough syrups or cold medicines was killed Wednesday in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
Supporters of the bill, AB 1853, said the number of teenagers abusing a key ingredient of cough medicines — dextromethorphan — has soared.
But lobbyists for drug companies said the abuse cases represented only a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of calls to the state poison control hotline.
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Supporters of the bill, AB 1853, said the number of teenagers abusing a key ingredient of cough medicines — dextromethorphan — has soared.
But lobbyists for drug companies said the abuse cases represented only a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of calls to the state poison control hotline.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sb...ines-california (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sbriefs22.2apr22,1,5692462.story?coll=la-headlines-california)