Display of Codeine based products to be banned in 2011.

[jimbo99]

I found this description of UK Solpadeine on Google. It looks like all those who have satisified their cravings by buying from the North and UK didn't need the codeine as it is not in the UK formula, apparently. The Pharmaceutical Society re established by MH seem to be right after all.

What is in the pack?



Each tablet contains the active ingredients Paracetamol 500 mg and Caffeine 65 mg. The tablets also contain: starch, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, potassium sorbate, talc, stearic acid, croscarmellose sodium. The film coat contains hydroxypropyl methylcellulose and triacetin. Solpadeine Headache Tablets come in a carton containing 8 or 16 tablets.

[Old Mr Grouser]

I found this description of UK Solpadeine on Google. It looks like all those who have satisified their cravings by buying from the North and UK didn't need the codeine as it is not in the UK formula, apparently. The Pharmaceutical Society re established by MH seem to be right after all.

What is in the pack?

Each tablet contains the active ingredients Paracetamol 500 mg and Caffeine 65 mg. The tablets also contain: starch, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, potassium sorbate, talc, stearic acid, croscarmellose sodium. The film coat contains hydroxypropyl methylcellulose and triacetin. Solpadeine Headache Tablets come in a carton containing 8 or 16 tablets.

It seems all these painkillers can have side-effects if they're taken on a regular basis.

Earlier this week there was a report of medical research in Scandinavia -

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Scientists are concerned that the use of painkillers in pregnancy may be responsible for the rise in male fertility problems seen in Western countries over the last 50 years.

The research found that taking ibuprofen, paracetamol, or aspirin, or a combination of the drugs, increased the likelihood that baby boys would be born with undescended testicles

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The regular use of pain-killers has previously been linked to other conditions such as stomach-ulcers and hearing-loss.

[FrankSpeaks]

I went into a local pharmacy a few days ago and asked for Nurofen Plus, they were refused because the pharmacy has gone prescription only on this product. I asked why and I was told that it was because:

1. It was taking the pharmacists away from their job of preparing prescription medicines.

2. Consequently they were afraid of making mistakes in the preparations of prescriptions.

3. They were not going to pay lip service to the rule that the pharmacist must talk to the requester of the medicine.

4. Staff were threatened when they would not give out the medicine.

5. Inspectors were into the pharmacy checking the the procedures were being followed.

6. They were afraid of losing their license if they did not correctly follow the procedures.

[Didimus]

Some discussion of the issues here on a pharmacists blog
Prescription regulations « Free wheeling to chaos

[reknaw]

Sometimes Ireland surprises me. I had always thought that everything was more strictly controlled in Scandinavia than in the Auld Sod, until I recently went to a pharmacy in Portlaoise and spent ages looking at the shelves in a vain search for cardio aspirin - something that my doctor always reminds me to take and I buy quite freely over the counter when I'm in Helsinki. Now, however, I had forgotten to take some back home to Ireland with me.

I asked a young wan in the shop, who told me I needed a prescription. Thinking she was joking, I laughed, until a more intelligent- and senior-looking colleague told me it was true.

Chancing my arm, I said I was only on a visit from another EU country and produced a Finnish passport. The elder lady retreated to her office and came out with an EU form meant for tourists who need emergency supplies of medicines. I filled it up and was given five days' emergency supply - five pills or the equivalent of one standard aspirin.

"That will be 60 cent, please." Roughly three times what I pay in Helsinki. But at least I had enough to do me until I got some in the post (how big a crime was that?) and without having to fork out €60 to a doctor.

Nice to know I am being protected from the danger of excessive self-medication by our oh-so-capable nanny Government. They'd really impress me if it were not for the sad fact that I could probably have scored some heroin or the like within five minutes and a few hundred metres of the place if I were so inclined.