Before it was placed behind the counter you couldn't even find it on shelves due to the amount of theft.
Stopping binge drinking meant reducing the amount of available alcohol, a substance requiring large scale shipping and production, storage and so on. Modern drugs really don't have that problem, and for the ones that do, synthetic alternatives would just take over.
Now all the junkies on the street corner? Lock them up
As someone who has bought it twice in the last decade, I'm glad it was available the day I went to the store looking for it. The price however is bananas, but I feel that way about all non generic brand name pills.
I just wanted a single box of Mucinex with pseudoephedrine for my cold.
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Alarms have been raised that this could be even more harmful for the users.
In any event, the restrictions on pseudoephedrine had huge societal costs (as a proxy, apparently at least $1.7B/yr is spent on useless “decongestants” [0] as a result), and I would hope it at least had corresponding benefits. But it doesn’t seem that meth has gotten any less available.
[0] Presumably more. After all, if people have trouble buying a decongestant that works, might as well buy a homeopathic “decongestant” instead, which is probably safer than phenylephrine while being no less effective.
We the uninsured need to procure it from a public mental hospital, but the appointments are months away, so I cannot get any. So this medicine, which my psychiatrist considers essential, is just... denied to me; I have not taken it in 8 months, resulting in my barely being able to function, much less find the employment that would make me, you know, insured.
What the hell have we done to ourselves letting corporations be the gatekeepers of our health!?
Having a job with benefits isn't a badge of honor, but corporations have convinced so many it is that I am unsure if this will ever change.
Getting a large amount of our medications imported from China is completely absurd. Last year, China accounted for 95 percent of U.S. imports of ibuprofen, 91 percent of U.S. imports of hydrocortisone, 70 percent of U.S. imports of acetaminophen, 40 to 45 percent of U.S. imports of penicillin and 40 percent of U.S. imports of heparin, according to Commerce Department data. Dec 20, 2019
The prior situation where the cold medicine that's out in the middle of the store is ineffective was worse IMO because people reasonably assume that if they're selling it then it should work. If you tell them that they have to ask the pharmacist, they'll just do that and get something that works.