sudafed tamperer gets life sentence annotation

Ropp, Kevin L. " sudafed tamperer gets life sentence"
FDA Consumer, November 1993 v27 n9 p36 (3)


Joseph Meling tampered with several sudafed packages and capsules. he replaced the liquids in the capsules with cyanide and gave them to his wife and them brought some packages back to stores.
evidence led back to Joseph and he received a life sentence.

washington state law limits pseudoephedrine pruchases annotation

"Washington state law limits pseudoephedrine purchases."
Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly, September 24, 2001 v13 i36 p7


new law which limits the sale of products with pseudoephedrine ingredient. it is found in many cold medications. it is a gross misdemeanor to sell more than 3 packs to one person. illegal for a customer to buy mor than that in a single day or posses more than 15 grams. small distributors will have to report every sale. hope it will help stop or hinder the growing meth problem. truth is .. the laws arent enough.

Who moved my sudafed? annotation

Gorman, Christine. " Who Moved My Sudafed?"
Time. New york, October 9, 2006. Vol. 168 Iss. 15; pg. 81
(database: Gold Periodicals)

allergy sufferers will find it harder to obtain their stuffy nose relief because of popular cold medications going behind the counter. companies have switched out pseudoephedrine, which is the leading ingredient in methamphedamine, to a different, less effective ingredient called phenylephrine. this ingredient is the same as a placebo at relieving stuffy noses. because it has a hard time getting to the blood stream. many companies switch to phenylephrine to keep their products on the shelves.

Methamphetamine Fear Cuts Cold-pill Access Annotation

Parker, Molly. "Methamphetamine Fear Cuts Cold-Pill Access"
Chicago Tribune (KRT), February 2, 2004, <>

stores such as Walgreens, dominicks, jewel-osco, walmart, and cvs, are all among big companies who have cracked down on sudafed sales across the nation. aimed at cutting back the thefts of pseudoephedrine products. needed to be put behind the counter to limit "smurfs" access to stealing the medication containing pseudoephedrine. smurfs are people hired to get products for meth cooks. someone can get high off of 1/3 of a gram of meth but may use more to keep the high going for days. "putting them behind the counter really hurts access of consumers to the product." -Jay Kosminsky, spokesman of Pfizer, maker of sudafed. some people believe that education NOT legislation is how we are going to stop the problem. crackdown lead to a higher amount of smurf thefts. this alone will not hinder the making of meth.

senate measure targets meth use, production

Brogan, Pamela "Senate Measure Targets Meth Use, Production"
Gannett news service, march 2 2006,

in washington meth makers and abusers will have a hard time making it under the new law.
bush is expected to sign this. this measure limits the sale of cold medicines that include the ingredient pseudoephedrine, which is the main ingredient in meth. buyers are limited to only 3.6 grams (120 pills) per day. or 300 per month. also have to show id and sign it out. also gives state/local law enforcement 119$ million a year to combat this. stiffer penalties. one lab bust revealed a dead baby in a duffel bag. more than 35 states have already limited the sale of pseudoephedrine. oregon is the toughest on this. missouri had the top meth problem in the nation. people say it is a problem and epidemic. and the feds need to do something.

Treating Sniffles With A Jail Term Annotation

the act of people abusing drugs is never going to end. people will just find new drugs to replace the ones that are restricted. pseudophedrine, and ingredient used in decongestants, has been recently used in meth.

Sudafed Clampdown Annotation

Jacob sullum talks about pseudophedrine restrictions in certain states. pseudophedrine is the new drug that has recently been an ingredient in the production of methanphedamine. people opposed to the restrictions on the purchase of such medication say, the meth cooks can just buy what they need from states with less restrictions. the most stuff that meth cooks get comes from buying in bulk in mexico, rather than pharmacys. ted kulongoski says the only way to stop the sale is to track the sales. drug trafficers find new drugs all the time. if you get rid of one.. its only a matter of time till they find another one.

outline

Introduction
-Attention getter-people with runny noses with have more trouble getting their medication than they hoped for. the senate has passed a law that put cold medications such as SudaFed and more, behind the counter of pharmacys. you no longer can run to the store and just pick up a box of sudafed off the shelf. you now have to wait in a line at the counter.
-preview-reason for the recent stashing of cold medications is that the ingredient pseudophedrine (which is used as a decongestant) has been used in the making of the drug meth. statistics have shown that meth lab busts have lowered in number since the cold medicine has been put behind the counter. experts have argued however, that it isnt having an effect on the production of meth, and the general public has complained about the inconvenience of having to wait in a line to get simple sniffle medication.
-thesis- meth lab investigations proved that certain cold medications aid in the making of the drug methanphetamine.

Body
-topic sentence-cold medications like sudafed have the ingredient pseudophedrine, which has been found to be used in the making of methanphedamine.
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Cold Pill Crackdown Annotation

Margot Roosevelt."Cold-Pill Crackdown, to fight the meth epidemic,
states go after legal sniffle remedies at the corner drugstore."
Time incorperated Feb. 7, 2005 Vol. 165, No. 6 pp. 56-57

in this article, margot roosevelt explains specific instances where consumers abuse the decongestant pseudoephedrine in medications such as sudafed. people have found out that they can use the ingredients in such medince to create the drug, methamphetamine. since such cases were found and an overwhelming amount of meth busts had been made, officials in most states have ordered that those medicines containing pseudoephedrine be put behind the counter.

RAFT // March 19

R-me
A-Mr. Hatten, the class and the world wide web
F-blog
T-my spring break and comments about third trimester

Well Mr. Hatten and the world wide web,
My spring break was really relaxing and wonderful :D.
I slept till noon almost every day, i went tanning and tried to get more color that my friend.
That didnt work out. Also, my brother had the same spring break as me so he came home from college. That was fun. Although he basically ate all of our food. I lived at other peoples houses all week to tell the truth. It was a very loonngg week, which was good, for the most part. I am very much looking forward to third trimester because i am determined to get all of this computer stuff, with blogger and all that jazz. Im sure that Mr. Hatten is very happy to know that he has both Miranda and I in the same class in this wonderful fifth hour english class this trimester. We would just like to let him know we will try... TRY to keep the talking down a bit.
No promises however.

works cited

Peter Potterfield, Mountain Zone staff, "Anatoli Boukreev,
Legendary Climber Killed on Annapurna"



Pete Thomas, times staff writer, " Morality on a Slippery Slope"
June 1, 2006, pp. A1+



Robin Marks, Mountain Zone Staff, "Guide Scott Fischer
Dies on Mount Everest" Wednesday, March 07, 2007



"How many dead bodies are up on Mount Everest?", Yahoo,
Tuesday November 2, 2004



The Associated Press. "Everest Pioneer Condemns Climbers"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5433982

Outline

Intro
attention getter-
preview- more people now than ever are making the climb to the summit of
Mt. Everest, and the deaths keep adding up.
thesis- too many people are dying while climbing on mt. everest due to lack of training.

Body

#1-according to http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hatt0047/everestarticles/LATimes, climber-guide Rob Hall, was one of nine mountaineers who died all in one day during a freak storm in the Death Zone in 1996
http://ask.yahoo.com/20041102.html, as of 2002 about 175 people were said to have died on Mt. everest.
most of which are still on the mountain now. also there are around 41 bodies located on the north side of the mountain. in the article (http://classic.mountainzone.com/climbing/fischer/)
"May 10, 1996, a severe and sudden storm trapped several climbers high on Mt. Everest as they were descending from the summit. In what has become the deadliest single tragedy in the mountain's climbing history, a total of eight people perished. One of them is renowned Seattle climbing guide Scott Fischer." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5433982 says.
"More than 1,500 climbers have reached the summit of Mount Everest in the last 53 years and some 190 have died trying."

#2-according to http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hatt0047/everestarticles/LATimes, by overcrowding and by the people helping you up the mountain having a "summit-or-bust" attitude to make the high fees they charge clients who, in some cases, lack adequate climbing experience justifiable.
also, conditions are really bad in the "Death Zone", which is above 25,000 feet, where there is little oxygen, the winds are freezing and temperatures reach 100 below. an attempt to rescue someone can be deadly.

#3-in the article "Deadly Peak" (http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hatt0047/everestarticles/deadly), these things have claimed many lives
- Triple-digit wind chills, sudden blizzards, avalanches, mile-deep crevasses, teetering 12-story ice chunks, sheer terrain.
- Potentially fatal mountain sickness, including pulmonary edema, in which the lungs fill with fluid, or cerebral edema, in which the brain does.
- An oxygen content that is one-third of that at sea level, requiring climbers to breathe four times as fast, or about 50 times a minute.
- Air so dry it causes the water content in the blood to drop from 50 percent to 15 percent, making it sluggish and the body prone to frostbite.
- A parched throat that often produces a hacking cough violent enough to crack ribs.
- Insomnia, due in part to a subconscious fear of suffocating.
- Impaired decision-making ability. (Climbers tested at high altitude have been found to take twice as long as the average 6-year-old to understand a simple sentence.)
- Hypothermia. Exhaustion. Hallucinations.
- And then there is the "Death Zone," the area above 25,000 feet where bottled oxygen is necessary to sustain life, and every other hazard is exacerbated.


#4-it used to be for the professionals who could endure climbing without a certain amount of oxygen, but now anyone who has money can go up there witch increases the danger they are putting themselves in.

Conclusion
restate-too many people are dying while climbing on mt. everest due to lack of training.
restate body- there is much evidence that proves that an overwhelming amount of people die on this treacherous trek up to the summit. due to things such as low oxygen, mountain sickness, inability to function and more.
solution-
my solution to this problem would be not allowing people to go up the mountain without excessive amounts of training for this climb. no one should be able to go up there by just paying a certain amount of money. Money doesn't replace training.
attention go-er

works cited

Day 5- Mt. Everest

Problem:
Too many people are dying on Mt. Everest.
Evidence:
according to http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hatt0047/everestarticles/LATimes, climber-guide Rob Hall, was one of nine mountaineers who died all in one day during a freak storm in the Death Zone in 1996

http://ask.yahoo.com/20041102.html, as of 2002 about 175 people were said to have died on Mt. everest.
most of which are still on the mountain now. also there are around 41 bodies located on the north side of the mountain.

(http://classic.mountainzone.com/climbing/fischer/)
"May 10, 1996, a severe and sudden storm trapped several climbers high on Mt. Everest as they were descending from the summit. In what has become the deadliest single tragedy in the mountain's climbing history, a total of eight people perished. One of them is renowned Seattle climbing guide Scott Fischer."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5433982
"More than 1,500 climbers have reached the summit of Mount Everest in the last 53 years and some 190 have died trying."

Contributing factors:
according to http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hatt0047/everestarticles/LATimes, by overcrowding and by the people helping you up the mountain having a "summit-or-bust" attitude to make the high fees they charge clients who, in some cases, lack adequate climbing experience justifiable.
also, conditions are really bad in the "Death Zone", which is above 25,000 feet, where there is little oxygen, the winds are freezing and temperatures reach 100 below. an attempt to rescue someone can be deadly.

in the article "Deadly Peak" (http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hatt0047/everestarticles/deadly), these things have claimed many lives
- Triple-digit wind chills, sudden blizzards, avalanches, mile-deep crevasses, teetering 12-story ice chunks, sheer terrain.
- Potentially fatal mountain sickness, including pulmonary edema, in which the lungs fill with fluid, or cerebral edema, in which the brain does.
- An oxygen content that is one-third of that at sea level, requiring climbers to breathe four times as fast, or about 50 times a minute.
- Air so dry it causes the water content in the blood to drop from 50 percent to 15 percent, making it sluggish and the body prone to frostbite.
- A parched throat that often produces a hacking cough violent enough to crack ribs.
- Insomnia, due in part to a subconscious fear of suffocating.
- Impaired decision-making ability. (Climbers tested at high altitude have been found to take twice as long as the average 6-year-old to understand a simple sentence.)
- Hypothermia. Exhaustion. Hallucinations.
- And then there is the "Death Zone," the area above 25,000 feet where bottled oxygen is necessary to sustain life, and every other hazard is exacerbated.

it used to be for the professionals who could endure climbing without a certain amount of oxygen, but now anyone who has money can go up there witch increases the danger they are putting themselves in.

Solution:
my solution to this problem would be not allowing people to go up the mountain without excessive amounts of training for this climb. no one should be able to go up there by just paying a certain amount of money. Money doesn't replace training.

Day 3

State the problem:
Too many people at tartan


Give evidence:
-The hallways at tartan are PACKED with kids, so much that people can barely walk.

-siblings have to share lockers

-class sizes are bigger than they have ever been

-parking lot is overflowing to the streets

-there is not enough supplies in the school for every student

-teachers are bringing in couches or chairs to fit the extra students in their classrooms


Examine contributing factors:
-there have been a lot of open enrollment students coming to tartan

-there are a lot more freshmen than other years

-there have been a lot of people transferring to tartan


Propose a solution:
Either make the school bigger or have the school district give schools more money to
do what they need to do to make the school able to accommodate all of the students.

Day 1

One of my friends is having trouble with keeping up with class. Ive noticed that her studying habits are a bit poor. I was thinking that i could help her out with that. All she really needs to do is go to a spot in her house where there are no distractions. I was also thinking that we could get a group of friends from our class and have a little study group. It would have to be with people who actually want to do well in that class. We could hold it at each house once a week. That would be a good way to get her study habits up to speed.