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> > It's because they can't visit any doctor It's because people rightfully don't want to go to a doctor when they want to have a good time. UAE and UK have V

> > It's because they can't visit any doctor It's because people rightfully don't want to go to a doctor when they want to have a good time. UAE and UK have Viagra/Cialis availible OTC. Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece is de-facto OTC (you can go to a pharmacy with an A4 blank piece of paper and 'be your own doctor' by writing in what you need by hand and signing it off still as 'your own doctor' with a fantasy name and a cool autograph). In the Land of the Free you have to go through all sorts of BS if you want to try how does it feel to do it 7 times in a night. Even recreational use is very low risk, not to mention people will do the 7 times/night things a bunch of sessions , cross it from their bucket list and they'd move on with the next item on the list.

jaclaz 4y ago
>Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece is de-facto OTC (you can go to a pharmacy with an A4 blank piece of paper and 'be your own doctor' by writing in what you need by hand and signing it off still as 'your own doctor' with a fantasy name and a cool autograph). Cannot say in the other countries, but in Italy you definitely cannot do that, the pharmacist wants a valid prescription (usually by a known MD, you may have even issues in getting some medicines with a valid prescription signed by a doctor in another city/region). It is the first time that I hear about "invented" prescriptions, though probably making fake ones is not difficult.
- JumpinJack_Cash 4y ago
  > > Cannot say in the other countries, but in Italy you definitely cannot do that, the pharmacist wants a valid prescription (usually by a known MD, you may have even issues in getting some medicines with a valid prescription signed by a doctor in another city/region). My experience was always that if you begged for something without prescription it was always a no go, as soon as you have a semi-valid piece of white paper with maybe some intestation etc. then you don't even have to beg
  - jaclaz 4y ago
    That: >semi-valid piece of white paper with maybe some intestation is more like a fake prescription, and doesn't sound like: >A4 blank piece of paper and 'be your own doctor' by writing in what you need by hand and signing it off still as 'your own doctor' with a fantasy name and a cool autograph It may depend on the specific medicine you needed/wanted, and of course there may be more or less strict pharmacists, but you won't normally get any non-OTC medicines without a proper prescription in Italy.
    - JumpinJack_Cash 4y ago
      > > is more like a fake prescription, and doesn't sound like: So the 'fake' treshold for you would be surpassed by the act of using a PC and a printer, whereas the 'writing what you need and signing off with a cool authograph' doesn't get you over the line? In any event, just semantics compared to what is going on in the US, Germany, The Netherlands and essentially de-facto the same scenario as the UK and the UAE (at least for people who are not extremely poor or unable to use Word.
      - jaclaz 4y ago
        Look, you stated that drugs (such as Viagra) were easily available ("de-facto OTC") in several countries, I can only report the actual situation, to the best of my knowledge, for the country I live in (Italy) which is that without a prescription you won't get it.
throwaway_ed 4y ago
> Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece is de-facto OTC (you can go to a pharmacy with an A4 blank piece of paper and 'be your own doctor' by writing in what you need by hand and signing it off still as 'your own doctor' with a fantasy name and a cool autograph). In Spain, things were quite lenient 10-15 years ago (basically, many pharmacies would sell you Viagra/Cialis without prescription, it was just a matter of trying and finding a lenient one) but not anymore AFAIK. You do need an official prescription, and there seems to be a lot of control so no pharmacy seems to sell without prescription now (maybe some do and I don't know, but if that's the case, they're definitely not easy to find). The situation is getting more and more ludicrous, as now you can't even get 1 g paracetamol pills without a prescription... but you can still get as many boxes of 500 mg pills as you like. Excellent measure to protect people who don't know basic addition.

jaclaz 4y ago

>Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece is de-facto OTC (you can go to a pharmacy with an A4 blank piece of paper and 'be your own doctor' by writing in what you need by hand and signing it off still as 'your own doctor' with a fantasy name and a cool autograph). Cannot say in the other countries, but in Italy you definitely cannot do that, the pharmacist wants a valid prescription (usually by a known MD, you may have even issues in getting some medicines with a valid prescription signed by a doctor in another city/region). It is the first time that I hear about "invented" prescriptions, though probably making fake ones is not difficult.

JumpinJack_Cash 4y ago
> > Cannot say in the other countries, but in Italy you definitely cannot do that, the pharmacist wants a valid prescription (usually by a known MD, you may have even issues in getting some medicines with a valid prescription signed by a doctor in another city/region). My experience was always that if you begged for something without prescription it was always a no go, as soon as you have a semi-valid piece of white paper with maybe some intestation etc. then you don't even have to beg
- jaclaz 4y ago
  That: >semi-valid piece of white paper with maybe some intestation is more like a fake prescription, and doesn't sound like: >A4 blank piece of paper and 'be your own doctor' by writing in what you need by hand and signing it off still as 'your own doctor' with a fantasy name and a cool autograph It may depend on the specific medicine you needed/wanted, and of course there may be more or less strict pharmacists, but you won't normally get any non-OTC medicines without a proper prescription in Italy.
  - JumpinJack_Cash 4y ago
    > > is more like a fake prescription, and doesn't sound like: So the 'fake' treshold for you would be surpassed by the act of using a PC and a printer, whereas the 'writing what you need and signing off with a cool authograph' doesn't get you over the line? In any event, just semantics compared to what is going on in the US, Germany, The Netherlands and essentially de-facto the same scenario as the UK and the UAE (at least for people who are not extremely poor or unable to use Word.
    - jaclaz 4y ago
      Look, you stated that drugs (such as Viagra) were easily available ("de-facto OTC") in several countries, I can only report the actual situation, to the best of my knowledge, for the country I live in (Italy) which is that without a prescription you won't get it.

throwaway_ed 4y ago

> Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece is de-facto OTC (you can go to a pharmacy with an A4 blank piece of paper and 'be your own doctor' by writing in what you need by hand and signing it off still as 'your own doctor' with a fantasy name and a cool autograph). In Spain, things were quite lenient 10-15 years ago (basically, many pharmacies would sell you Viagra/Cialis without prescription, it was just a matter of trying and finding a lenient one) but not anymore AFAIK. You do need an official prescription, and there seems to be a lot of control so no pharmacy seems to sell without prescription now (maybe some do and I don't know, but if that's the case, they're definitely not easy to find). The situation is getting more and more ludicrous, as now you can't even get 1 g paracetamol pills without a prescription... but you can still get as many boxes of 500 mg pills as you like. Excellent measure to protect people who don't know basic addition.