Patients are confused about all the new cough and cold products
December 2006
Patients are confused about all the new cough and cold products.
Phenylephrine is showing up on shelves more, since there's a higher abuse potential with pseudoephedrine. Pseudoephedrine is being bought to convert it to crystal meth.
But phenylephrine doesn't seem to work as well as pseudoephedrine for decongestion.
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