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Here in the UK, a lot of things that are available without prescription in the US or are easily prescribed are very hard to get. I buy melatonin and buproprion
by shubb 4y ago
Here in the UK, a lot of things that are available without prescription in the US or are easily prescribed are very hard to get.
I buy melatonin and buproprion from dodgy websites. In the US I could just go the pharmacy or my doctor respectively.
Here we see that there is some level of harm from any drug restriction which must be balanced against the benefit.
In the US you can buy lidocaine cream over the counter. My wife is experiencing some post pregnancy problems involving really extreme pain that could be mitigated effectively with lidocaine. Because we need an authorisation issued to a specific pharmacy and we can't get another doctors appointment after the first pharmacy was out of stock, I watch her curled up crying again, I wonder how huge this benefit has to be to be worth it.
- theGnuMe 4y agoI thought bupropion in the UK was available via a private doctor? NHS won’t issue it but a private doctor could?
- shubb 4y agoIt's not licenced for depression in the UK only smoking cessation, so the doctor is criminaly culpable if you suicides while taking it for instance. However if you pay enough money in sure you can get anything prescribed. More pragmatically there are websites where you fill out a form saying you are quiting smoking a doctor at the website signs it off based on the form. However, these are hacks for a bad system right? The harm is, there are a lot of brits suffering poor sleep when they could just pop a melatonin for 20 cents in the US. Gating it behind a £200 medical appointment creates the harm.
- Fatnino 4y agoIn the US lidocaine patches without a prescription are like 4% while prescription lidocaine patches are 5% Those numbers might not be exact as it's been a couple years since I dealt with this, but it was definitely a tiny difference.