Sudafed

Security glass once locked up electronics, Sudafed and a few other items.

There was a time, he said, when the main thing they locked up was Sudafed.

Those original versions of Sudafed and other medicines remain available without a prescription.

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Tuesday against the effectiveness of the ingredient found in popular versions of Sudafed, Allegra, Dayquil and other medications sold on pharmacy shelves.

He winds up there because of a “hustle,” as he describes it, which involved selling his classmates what they believed to be coke or molly but was actually Sudafed ground with sea salt.