Need medicine with pseudoephedrine? It may take longer if bill limits access.

Top of Utah residents who want to treat a case of the sniffles may soon find themselves part of the war against methamphetamine.

A bill that will be considered in Congress following summer recess would require that cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine, a precursor drug to meth, be sold only from behind pharmacy counters.

Mixing and cooking pseudoephedrine with other chemicals creates meth, which authorities say is the leading cause of drug-related arrests in Weber and Morgan counties.

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