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JumpCrisscross11/08/20242 repliesview on HN

Do we know the story around the people who pushed this? (EDIT: By "this" I mean phenylephrine.)

Had they never had a stuffy nose?


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gambiting11/08/2024

Phenylephrine doesn't work though. It never did. It was "pushed" as an alternative to pseudoephedrine which can be used to synthesize meth, but afaik every single study done on this shows that phenylephrine does absolutely nothing, it's a placebo drug. The faster it's phased out the better.

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Cthulhu_11/08/2024

People bought sudafed / they earned a lot of money from it, and they wanted to continue to earn money off of it. That's basically it. But they will point the blame at legislation I'm sure, both for making the effective stuff more difficult to get, and for being OK with the ineffective stuff being sold.