Article: Palo Alto, Calif., Police Officer Seeks Curbs on Cold-Medicine Availability.

San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 17--Palo Alto High School resource officer Wayne Benitez is on a one-man mission to curb an age-old problem.

The police officer is asking one of the nation's largest grocery store chains, Safeway, to do something about cold medicines that contain dextromethorphan, or DXM, because teens are scooping up the drugs, gulping them down and getting high.

"I don't know what the answer is," Benitez said. "But when we're presented with this and it's doing our children harm, we'd better do something about it. We need to help our kids."

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