• $75
  million the amount CVS has to pay in fines for selling pseudoephedrine to criminals producing crystal meth
• $2.5
  million the amount the massive pharmacy chain has to give up in profits linked to the drug’s sale source

• » Where you’ve used pseudoephedrine: Sudafed, Claritin, Zyrtec, Contac and Mucinex, among others. Some of these brands, by the way, no longer use the drug. What CVS did here wasn’t intentional so much as a blind eye. They didn’t question people making repeated purchases of these drugs.

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