“Painkillers containing codeine will be available only with a script from 2018, after experts deemed the risk of addiction and overdose too serious to allow pharmacists to sell the drugs without the involvement of a doctor.”
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Good move
So now people misusing codeine products will have to doctor shop as well as pharmacy shop. What we really need, if privacy laws can be worked around, is a real time patient medication supply history that health professionals – not just pharmacists – can access
Don’t like it? Then fight it or this poor decision will get through, sorry TGA but this isn’t only your decision, it’s ours as the adult citizens of Australia. https://www.change.org/p/malcolm-turnbull-keep-low-dose-codeine-medication-available-over-the-counter?recruiter=37029663&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink