Pharmacy technician Janell Mills stacks boxes of pseudophedrine on a shelf at Forbes Pharmacy in downtown Houston. Because of a city ordinance implemented earlier this year, the popular cold medicine and prime ingredient in methamphetamine is available in Houston by prescription only.

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