My Precautionary Tale Re: Sudafed & NPLEX (National Registry of Pseudoephedrine Abusers)
6 min readAug 17, 2014
One cloudy morning in June, 2014, I strolled into my local Fred Meyer in Seattle, WA, and stood in line at the pharmacy. My 13 year old son had a runny nose and an annoying cough. I needed to re-up my Sudafed. The red pills I had bought OTC (over-the-counter) had become popular in the last 15 years as the main ingredient for “kitchen sink…
