I went to Sav-on on Saturday to pick up more NyQuil and DayQuil equivalents. The shelf was practically empty. All sizes of the name-brand boxes (I get the capsules, since I can’t stand taking cough syrup) were completely out.
Yes, they were out of NyQuil and DayQuil.
As for the store brand, which I know from experience works well, they were down to their last few boxes unless you picked up the 40-packs. I think there were two 20-packs of the daytime version, and only the giant boxes for the nighttime.
If anything says “cold season has hit,” it’s a shortage of over-the-counter cold medication!
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NoonQuil anyone? @.*
They may have been removed from the shelf. Ask the pharmacist. They did that here in Oregon and soon you will have to get a prescription. It has to do with psuedofed being one of the key ingredients in making meth.
I thought about it, but it seems unlikely. This store had already pulled the actual Sudafed (and generic) behind the counter, and if they were removing the NyQuil and Dayquil for having pseudoephedrine, they would have removed the store brand stuff too.
When I first read up on this a few months ago, what I found said that only the solid form could be used to make meth. Assuming that’s true, there should be no reason to restrict access to NyQuil, since it’s sold as either a bottle of liquid or a gelatin capsule filled with liquid.
Of course, I may be assuming a level of intelligence to state law/store policy that doesn’t exist. If so, I’ll be really annoyed.