DRUG COMPANIES VOICE OPPOSITION TO PILL RESTRICTION

Police want it. Drug companies don't. A lobbyist for OTC pharmaceutical companies was the lone voice of opposition at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on a law that would require pills used to make methamphetamine be sold behind a pharmacist's counter. Police say it's the first glimmer of hope in years in Kansas' fight against meth labs. But the law would mean drugs such as Sudafed couldn't be sold in convenience stores or other places that didn't have a pharmacist on duty, and the drug-trade group doesn't want that.

Lawrence Journal-World (http://ljworld.com/section/health/story/193708)