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If you're a patient-of-record at your pharmacy, Rep. Ben Smaltz's bill allows you to continue buying pseudoephedrine, a standard cold medicine, as usual. If you're not, you can buy a small amount of the drug before needing a prescription.

Bills passed by lawmaker sin the House and Senate block those convicted of drug-related offences from buying cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in the most common recipes for methamphetamine production.

House and Senate lawmakers overwhelming approved bills Wednesday that give pharmacists a bigger role in helping stem the state's meth cooking crisis.

The House shot down a prescription-only bill targeting pseudoephedrine sales, but two other bills targeting meth production advanced out of Senate committee.

Indiana legislators are set to consider a proposal that would give pharmacists the authority to turn away suspicious customers trying to buy a common cold medicine that's used to make methamphetamine.

Indiana's methamphetamine problem isn't going away - though it's not in the headlines as much as the heroin and opioid epidemic. Indiana legislators are considering a bill that would give pharmacists the power to decide whether someone was eligible to buy its essential ingredient -- pseudoephedrine -- over the counter.

Indiana State Police say 119 meth labs were documented in Delaware County during the first half of 2015.