DRUG PRECURSORS PLAGUE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
September 1st, 2009
BY EMMA JACKSON
GIVING Sudafed to a stuffed-up patient hardly seems unusual, but in the hands of clandestine drug producers decongestants can become downright dangerous. Used to make methamphetamines (also known as 'crystal meth'), drug barons crave common pharmaceuticals to keep their operations moving. And move they do, with more than eight tonnes of illicit ephedrine and pseudoephedrine seized at European Union (EU) borders in 2007, enough to make Euro 1.4 billion worth of highly addictive meth according to a report on EU drug precursor seizures published by ...
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