Rick - I'm not sure I understand your implication - is it because of possible future control of DXM (that may have a promising theraputic effect on PD)?

I would have to see a lot more evidence before I could believe they are cooking up a reason to regulate it beyond the teen abuse reasons they are giving. I know it is only one person, but a friend and classmate of my daughter's, a girl whose family I have known since college, had her life almost destroyed by abusing over the counter cough medicine. She spent months in rehab, not to mention suffered tremendous humiliation as she was marched in handcuffs from the store across the street from the high school for shop lifting the stuff.

This kind of drug abuse has already effected the manufacturing and sale of Sudafed. Its only ingredient, pseudoephedrine, is used in making meth. So now you can still get it without a perscription, but must ask the pharmacist for it (and fill out a lengthy form disavowing any illegal use). Meanwhile, Sudafed has also been reformulated with a different (less effective, in my opinion) ingredient for sale on the shelves.

This seems to be an extreme reaction to me, as would any kind of similar regulation on DXM to avoid abuse. There are lots of dangerous materials sold openly and freely to everyone - like bleach and gasoline. It's impossible to protect ourselves so thoroughly.

But the outcry over abuse of DXM is real. If it is removed from easy access on grocery shelves it will be because of our typical American aversion and overreaction to recreational drug use/abuse, not because of a conspiracy to reap profits from potential PD patients.