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A proposed law would turn off the spigot on a creative way that teenagers get high -- chugging cough syrup, which can cause hallucinations in high doses.

Rep. Rob Nosse, D-Portland, is crusading this session against the high cost of medicine, first with a bill to rein in pharmaceutical costs and now with legislation that goes after another big cost-driver: hospitals, which charge health insurers considerably more in Oregon than in other states.