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Have you heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamizole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamizole ? Widely used outside the US, but illegal to prescribe here
by glimshe 3y ago
Have you heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamizole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamizole ?
Widely used outside the US, but illegal to prescribe here. But you can own it here as long as you are not prescribing it. It's not as potent as an opioid, but it's a step up from the OTC stuff. I often buy it when traveling abroad (a bottle costs less than a dollar in Latin America) and my family has used it for years as millions of people abroad. There are concerns with safety, but according to plenty of foreign research, these risks are comparable to other, widely used medicine, and are based on outdated results.
This medicine is so cheap it wouldn't be profitable to do new trials in the US, thus we will likely not see this sold here anytime soon.
Anyway, this is not medical advice!