Bill proposes prescriptions for cold medicines

GREENVILLE, SC (FOX Carolina) -

Angie Steadman is a former meth addict who has turned her life around.

"Once I tried it, and got into it then it was very addictive. I was addicted immediately," Steadman said.

Users said the drug is easy to get and easy to make. They make meth by using pseudoephedrine, which is a decongestant found in cold medicine.

"I got caught up in a pretty heavy, heavy duty situation as a result of some of those things. As a result, I was involved with people that were involved with meth manufacture," Steadman said.

"I was doing things I would have never done in my right mind," Steadman said. "Then it got to the point where you could only buy two at a time."

And now to try and crack down on meth makers, Upstate Sen. Mike Fair, R-Greenville, introduced a bill that would make all medicine with pseudoephedrine prescription only.

"It isn't the product, it's the chemicals the products combined with that can be extrapolated and used," Fair said.

Back in 2010, lawmakers passed a bill that put limits on how much pseudoephedrine can be bought by one person. Customers must show ID and their information is put into a database.

"According to leadership and law enforcement in South Carolina, it isn't working and we still have the problem," Fair said.

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Bill proposes prescriptions for cold medicines