I heart decongestants
My head has felt like a water balloon ready to break and I have been caught up in the aftermath of the abuse of pseudoephedrine. Not that I have abused it, but all of the great pseudoephedrine products are behind the pharmacy counter now and are tightly controlled. I have to show my driver's license and sign a book just to get a couple of boxes. Even my beloved Chlortrimeton-D is officially off the shelves never to return. I now need to take a mixture of straight Chlortrimeton and some generic pseudoephedrine to get the deisred effect. Thankfully this is still something I can score pretty easily and it works great for me. I tried the new "PE" decongestants and they did not do much for me. I may give them another try, but only when I have a harder time getting the pseudoephedrine.
That having been said, I read an article that basically said the abuse of over the counter medications is on the rise. Growing up as sheltered as I did (not as sheltered as some, but my parents towed the line pretty tight) I would not have hung out with the crowd that would have been into this sort of thing. I would, most probably, have not had the information at my disposal to concentrate the products and abuse them.
That's altogether different now as I am sure that I could get that information from the comfort of my own family room over the internet. This information is everywhere and it is not a matter of avoiding "that place" or "those people". The battle is much tougher now and I am afraid that I would not have had the fortitude or the discipline to fight it had situations been different. I could easily have seen myself succumbing to the temptation to abuse those drugs.
All the more reason to pray for my boys, to model a drug-free life, and to make sure that I am an accessible parent and person.
That having been said, I read an article that basically said the abuse of over the counter medications is on the rise. Growing up as sheltered as I did (not as sheltered as some, but my parents towed the line pretty tight) I would not have hung out with the crowd that would have been into this sort of thing. I would, most probably, have not had the information at my disposal to concentrate the products and abuse them.
That's altogether different now as I am sure that I could get that information from the comfort of my own family room over the internet. This information is everywhere and it is not a matter of avoiding "that place" or "those people". The battle is much tougher now and I am afraid that I would not have had the fortitude or the discipline to fight it had situations been different. I could easily have seen myself succumbing to the temptation to abuse those drugs.
All the more reason to pray for my boys, to model a drug-free life, and to make sure that I am an accessible parent and person.
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