Soon to need a prescription for Nurofen/Solphadine/etc?

HorsesNHarleys wrote: »

Not for anti-inflammatory, but definitely for anything with codeine in it. What's interesting about the prescription anti-inflammatory medication is the doctors will usually tell you to take a certain amount of the over the counter anti-inflammatory medication which is equivalent to the prescription strength or they can write the prescription for it. It really is a matter of whether you want to take one 800 mg pill or four 200 mg pills.

With regard to the anti-biotic prescriptions, I imagine if there was an outbreak of something and there was a shortage of the necessary anti-biotic then there probably would be a black market, that's usually how it works, but right now there isn't. Trying to put some kind of logic on how our medicines are determined to be restricted is futile because there is no logic. It's based primarily and driven by the almighty dollar. The pharmaceutical industry and the Food and Drug Administration are about corrupt as they come. The primary focus of the Pharmaceutical Industry is to ensure that the sales of pharmaceutical drugs for on-going diseases continue to increase while discovering new diseases for existing medicines to treat.

Think about it realistically, finding cures is in direct conflict with the Pharmaceutical Industries objectives, why would they ever want to find cures for any illness or disease? By finding cures, they stand to lose billions in lost profits. In America, the government pours billions of dollars into companies in the way of grants doing medical research to find cures that will never be found because, it's not in their best interest to find a cure. They simply take the money and run. They go through all the motions like they're doing research and trying to find a cure without ever having any intent to do so. The companies then put out a medication that won't cure but will help minimize the effects, mask the symptoms or reduce them, but never cure and so the circle continues on and on.

Doesn't it seem odd that we can develop some of the most complex advanced weaponry, computers, aircraft, rockets, satellites, artificial hearts and limbs, robotics, we can send folks into space, but we can't find the cure for cancer or the common cold? Look at the billions in money made from those two diseases/illness alone.

Trust me, governments typically don't institute any policy or law for your protection that the government itself is not gaining or benefiting more from by doing it whether it is monetary or simply more control over people's lives and a greater dependency on their government to function in their daily life.

policeman wrote: »

An nurse experienced in cancer care once told me, through her own research, that a cancer cure had been discovered as far back as the 1970's but it was buried because the global drug giants make too much profit from it, and governments see it as some sort of population control [therefore costing them less money]. Now, I accept this is anecdotal, and you might say another paranoid conspiracy theory, but it sticks in my mind.

Profit before people.. Profit before people...Look after number 1, personal gain, blady blah. That is predominantly the way civilisation has evolved much to our collective shame. Therefore all is never what it seems.

So when the next person says to you, sorry scratch that, pontificates "I'm doing this for your own good, because I really do care what happens to you I]you moron[/I" Ask yourself do they really give a toss? What's their real motive? Are they just looking after themselves? To the latter the answer will invariably be a resounding Yes.

policeman wrote: »

This folks, is the medical elite at it's best. Sad isn't it? It's people like this that make decisions for us, the retarded masses.[shudder]

gbee wrote: »

Partly an issue arises with dissolving the Solpadeine against the tables prescribed by a [our] doctor.

The ritualism is gone and the effect is reportedly not the same.