My main apotheke is a family-owned one with a general practitioner and a chemical engineer in the family, so after I brought in my medical file and notarised letters from my GP and three government doctors, I can get everything I need including depressants and stimulants to use as potentiators though antihistamines are still my favourite -- the local attitude is very different from the USA and a lot of doctors, apothecaries, bureaucrats, and judges have been downright defiant about it . . . there is nothing like the rule in the USA that maintaining an addict is not the usual course of practise, and the government says that Austrians have a right to take narcotics, and I see echoes of that especially in Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary &c. The Germans, Austrians and Swiss, actually discovered (Morphine in Paderborn, Germany 1804) and developed a huge percentage of the semi-synthetics and synthetics with notable work also done in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and elsewhere; the first morphine esters were discovered in 1874 by the CR Alders Wright organisation in London, the big one being sold as heroin by Bayer from 1898 . . . I asked a couple of ÖVP and Green members of the Nationalsrat about the "opioid crisi$" in the USA and they said "Ja, right, and I can sell you the Eiffel Tower for scrap metal for €70 000, and what would they know about it anyways?"