On the War On Some Drugs, and the same having now reached its illogical conclusion.

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Govt considers banning pseudoephedrine products

That is, all pseudoephedrine, in any form whatsoever, completely. Effectively, it would make pseudephedrine as illegal a drug as Heroin.

You...

Fucking...

WHAT?!?!?

"There are alternatives" he says. Yeah, Phenylepherine, which doesn't work. Sudafed PE with the Phenylepherine in it does almost precisely squat for my sinuses, combined with all the side effects working at full strength. So what I get is discombobulation, and blocked sinuses.

It used to be that I could get my hands on Pseudoephedrine, in the form of Sudafed Classic. And it worked, reliably and quickly. Sinus headaches vanished, yay!

Then there were some noises about this 'speed' stuff, made from 'ephedrine', and how you could turn pseudoephedine into ephedrine. And it started getting harder to get hold of Sudafed. But I could still get it, so I wasn't too worried. Then I started getting asked questions when I bought it. I could see the point of such questions, so I went along.

Then they started tracking purchases of Pseudoephedrine. O...kay. Still, only makes sense, if you're trying to prevent surreptitious bulk purchases, right?

Then the Chemists, as one, decided to say 'fuck you, you can't have any' unless I had begged a doctor for the privilege. Now I was starting to get pissed off. Don't you get between my sinuses and the medication to make them not hurt, don't you dare. I could still get medication that worked, but I was no longer taking just what I needed, but had to inflict Codeine and Paracetamol on myself as well, whether or not I wanted it. In other words, for safety's sake, I was being forced to take drugs which I neither needed nor wanted, in order to get the one I did need.

Now I won't even have that option.


Goddessdamned fucking hair-trigger-kneejerk feltching arseholes. "Ow, my reflex knee-jerk over-reaction just dislocated my knee, and I kicked myself in my own balls!"


Codeine's next. Then the feltching *$%Ss will be after your insulin (injecting materials, you know) and Brycanyl huffer (stepping-stone to chroming, you know).

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Neitsche Was Right

[enrobso.livejournal.com]

And it was Rudd who came out first with this. It greatly saddens me, but I have seen the future of Kevin Rudd and its name is Blair.

[iosef.livejournal.com]

Codeine has been on the list for a while. It is getting ever more difficult to get certain forms even with a prescription, and the limit for non has been lowered to "below 10 mg". Mersyndol is down and the generics sit at about 8. Mind you, in the US my standard 30 mg tablets require the signatures of two seperate doctors.