Prosecutors want controls on decongestants OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Oklahoma's district attorneys have asked the state legislature to require prescriptions for the decongestants that are raw ingredients of methamphetamine. The 27 county prosecutors launched a lobbying effort Monday, The Oklahoman reported. The legislature is considering several bills to increase controls on medication like Sudafed, Claritin-D and Mucinex that contain pseudoephedrine. Pseudoephedrine is a critical ingredient in meth. Last year, 900 meth labs were found in the state, 400 of them in Tulsa County. "These labs are causing fires, chaos and devastation in our great state, and it's killing innocent people," said District Attorney Greg Mashburn, who serves Cleveland, McClain and Garvin counties. We desperately need to make the key ingredient in this dangerous drug a prescription. The pharmaceutical industry and many doctors and other health care professionals oppose requiring prescriptions for decongestants. The district attorneys decided to weigh in after a bill failed to win release last week from a state Senate committee.