DRUG-FUELED SOCIETY OFFERS NO SOLUTIONS TO METH

Samantha Demchak (letters, Aug. 6) correctly surmises in her letter
concerning proposed prescription restrictions on pseudoephedrine products
that there will be a cost to bear by the average citizen. While I can
empathize with her $50 dilemma, I disagree with her view that Oregon
lawmakers "boondoggled" another one.

This is the Legislature that the voting public put into office. The meth
problem has been attacked from the front, with varying methods and mixed
results. When someone can't find a reason to cheer, then they have to
create a reason to complain.

There has been considerable gum chewing from the public, but not one of
these Monday-morning quarterbacks has given any options to lawmakers and
enforcement that is as viable as this one.

Oh, and one considerable benefit not mentioned by Demchak is that we are a
self-prescribing, self-medicating, hypochondriac nation. It might do good
to wean the pill poppers off the drugs and bring natural immunity back into
play.

- -- Brian Livingston

Turner