Codeine ban will induce headaches: pharmacists (SMH March 26)
Monday, March 29, 2010 at 9:06AM What a load of trollop.
Laws limiting the volume of codeine based medication you can buy could be argued for or against. yet the message of this article was that it would lead to increased costs and more inconvenience.
But did you read the heading? They actually mean it. "Greg and Mary Walsh of Concord, who have four children, estimate they use a 12-pack of combination analgesics every week. They buy in packs of 48 because they are cheaper and ''then it's always there'' but will now have to visit a pharmacy almost every week.
''It will lead to us running out,'' Mr Walsh said. ''When it's needed, it won't be there. so you'll have to put up with the pain until it subsides or until you get around to going to the chemist."
This type of comment I think shows that the problems we have with the health system are not limited to the system itself, but the decades of mis-information provided as best care for problems. You would think that this family (and many more like them) should stop and ask - WHY do we need so many drugs? WHAT is causing the symptoms? And actually do something about the problem rather than pretending that drugs are the answer.
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This is absurd I am still trying to get my head around it, next they will be saying you can't this or that and everything will have to be on script. Waiting time at chemists isn't exactly short either for prescription medication, so now not only will the pharmacist have to do prescriptions but also for these codeine ones. I take night strenght myrscendol when I get bad tension headaches or migraines so under the new law now am I going to need a script? My GP must be cursing because he has so many patients to see each day, he doesn't want to deal with this trivial sort of stuff