News Severe Co-Codamol Shortage in the UK

[4DQSAR]

Just wondering - since it's now NOVEMBER, is Co-codamol now back in stock?

Hospitals in England hit by shortages of common drugs such as paracetamol

NHS trusts also report disruption to supplies last winter of co-codamol and blood pressure medication ramipril

www.theguardian.com

To me the odd thing is that plain 30mg codeine tablets are prescribable and of course plain paracetamol is about 45p for 32.

I did look into it a little and it appears that the 7 generic manufacturers work on a razor-thin profit margin and oddly, they chose to claim it was a shortage of paracetamol rather than codeine that was the cause. The reality being that the Indian manufacturers OF the paracetamol were hit by oil prices since phenol is just one of those products IN hydrocarbons.

To me it's bizarre that NHS contracts don't cover cases where due to loss of profitability, manufacturers can make the somewhat dubious claim that there was no paracetamol. I don't recall seeing shortages of it BUT equally, I almost never use it. So I could be wrong. Was plain paracetamol also unavailable?

 

[lost weekend]

That's sadistic as fuck (amatryptaline for pain)

It's not exactly amatryptaline but similar
It's nortriptyline but I think it's the same?

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

Dunno about pain, but amitriptyline is decent for sleep.

I've got enough to sleep for decades

 

[lost weekend]

Dunno about pain, but amitriptyline is decent for sleep.

I've got enough to sleep for decades

I tried it once and hated the way it made me feel the next day ,similar to all the anti depressant pills I've had in the past

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

I tried it once and hated the way it made me feel the next day ,similar to all the anti depressant pills I've had in the past

Yeh, I know what you mean, but I find the next day grogginess to be minimal when compared to something like mirtazepine.

20mg usually does the trick when i've got no weed or booze to knock me out.

 

[lost weekend]

Yeh, I know what you mean, but I find the next day grogginess to be minimal when compared to something like mirtazepine.

20mg usually does the trick when i've got no weed or booze to knock me out.

God ,was prescribed mirtazepine once ,knocked me out and made me feel hellish next day
I just don't trust any anti depressant drugs especially when your told it will take 4 weeks to start working but until then you will feel worse than you actually feel now

 

[4DQSAR]

@F.U.B.A.R. - as you know, I don't get on with either of your alternatives but even 20mg sublingual sends me to sleep.

OT (On topic) - The Indian paracetamol manufacturers were all swapping to a far safer continous-flow reaction using non-prescious metal cluster catalysts (so as to not need Chinese imports) and the modified Bamberger Rearrangement (a very finicky reaction) proved problematic at scale.

Now it turns out that they HAD signed price agreements BUT it probably wasn't politically expedient to explain how how much 'soft power' China has or that the Indian government had degreed a change because in 2020-2021 China arbritarily increased the prices of the very specific catalysts based on rare earth metals.

How do you explain the above in the headline of a red-top rag?

CO-CODAMOLGATE!

COMMIE CHEMICAL CRUNCH COOLS SUPPLY AS BRITS CRY OUT IN CRIPPLING PAIN!