Pain killer prescription needed after February 1st
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All codeine-based products, including Panadeine, Nurofen Plus, and some cold and flu medication, will be banned from sale without prescription from February 1 after new state laws were passed earlier this year.
Small amounts of codeine in over-the-counter medication was metabolised into morphine, leading to opioid addiction in some people.
People unwittingly end up taking more and more and more of it until a point they actually get poisoning from the ibuprofen, or anti-inflammatory, or paracetamol component.
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Thank you so much for all that Info. P.B. If you have been lucky enough I would be grateful also :)
Hope you are going along o.k. I feel sadly (and me a health fanatic) in many ways as you are P.B., do feel as Toot posted addicted to Codeine. :(
hugs
Phyl.