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Re:CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they'... by xienze on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @07:33PM (#38007155)
> People feel sick and they go in and just say "I'll take whatever is strongest" and they get overcharged for these weird formulations that are sort of kitchen-sink type things.

Well, it doesn’t help that most states require you to go to the pharmacy counter for the stuff that actually works (pseudoephedrine), and in some states you actually need a prescription.

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Re:CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they'... by pyrophane on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @07:46PM (#38007286)
It is true. It created an incentive for people to avoid putting pseudoephedrine in things because most people weren't going to buy a formulation that they had to go to the counter for.
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