Pseudoephedrine

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• Newspaper Reports

Australia

Australian Crime Commission

• Clandestine Laboratories
  A 5 page report taken from the 97-98 Australian Illicit Drug Report.

Australian Federal Police (AFP)

• Importation of Pseudoephedrine Foiled
  Media Report. 20 May 2004

Australian Self-Medication Industry

• Code of Conduct - Helping Prevent the Diversion of Pseudoephedrine-Containing Non-Prescription Medicines
  A Code of Conduct from the non-prescription medicines industry demonstrating commitment for the responsible sale and promotion of non-prescription pseudoephedrine-containing medicines. This Code was developed in 2002 and revised in 2003. June 2003

Pharmaceutical Society of Australia

• Code of Practice – Pseudoephedrine
  This Code of Practice is issued in relation to pseudoephedrine - a potential source of harm to patients or other members of the community if misused or abused. November 2006

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia

• Project Stop - Project STOP is an online recording system developed by The Pharmacy Guild of Australia. It records the details of people purchasing pseudoephedrine-based medicines with their consent, and alerts police when a person has attempted to purchase such products from a number of different pharmacies in a given period of time.
  

Tasmania. Depatment of Health and Human Services

• Supply of Pseudoephedrine Products
  Circular to Pharmacies in Tasmania. 6 April 2004
• Supply of Pseudoephedrine Products
  Circular to Pharmacies in Tasmania. 16 March 2004

National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC)

• Australian Drug Trends 2005
  Findings from the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS)
• Australian Trends In Ecstasy And Related Drug Markets 2005
Findings from the Party Drugs Initiative (PDI)

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International

American College of Emergency Physicians

• Pseudoephedrine Can Trigger Heart Attacks in the Young and Healthy
  Media Report. 22 Nov 2004

Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)

• Drugs of Abuse: 2005 Edition
  This report provides an overview of commonly abused legal and illegal drugs.
Media Report: Editorial. 4 Nov 2004
Media Report. NBTY, Inc. Agrees to Pay $950,000 to Settle Claims That it Shipped Tablets Used in the Illegal Manufacturing of Methamphetamine. 21 July 2004
Media Report. State of Oklahoma Places Pseudoephedrine Tablets into Schedule V
Media report. 10 June 2004
• DEA Meetings and Events: Pseudoephedrine Retailers Meeting
  Meeting notes about industry issus and pseudoephedrine. February 2003

NZ Ministry of Health: Proposed Classification of Pseudoephedrine and Ephedrine under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975

• Statement of the nature and magnitude of the pseudoephedrine problem and the need for government action. Feb. 2004

Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)

• National Synthetic Drugs Action Plan
  The  Federal Government Response to the Production, Trafficking, and Abuse of Synthetic Drugs and Diverted Pharmaceutical Products.  The Action Plan provides an overview of recent trends in the consumption and trafficking of methamphetamine, diverted pharmaceuticals (including pseudoephedrine), Ecstasy, and other synthetic drugs, and outlines a balanced approach focused on four core areas: prevention, treatment, regulation of chemicals and drugs, and law enforcement. Oct 2004

Public Statistics Institute

• Impacts of federal ephedrine and pseudoephedrine regulations on methamphetamine-related hospital admissions
  This research report indicates that regulations targeting precursors used by large-scale producers substanially reduce hospial admissions. However, the regulation of precursors used primarily by small-scale producers have little, if any, effect. 2003

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Newspaper Reports

• The Sun-Herald: Nine days on the road for $600,000 bounty. 5 Dec 2004