OTC Medicines in the UK
I'm from Australia and I recently spent 2 weeks in England. In AU, it's a nightmare getting any tablets containing Pseudoephedrine. It's also a hassle buying codeine/ibuprofen or codeine/paracetamol tablets, but not too hard.
I went to a few pharmacies in different places, but ASDA and Boots were the two chains I visited most often, plus one that I can't remember the name of. I managed to walk out each time with Nurofen Plus or Sudafed without any real difficulty at all. Is this common? And because of the relative ease of purchasing Sudafed, is there a large Methamphetamine scene in UK? I was under the impression Amphetamine was more common in UK and Europe, but I may well be wrong.
Was I just lucky, maybe because I'm a foreigner, or is it generally easy to get these and other pharmacist only medicines in England?
One other question, I had a great time, save the 23 hour flight there and back, and would love to go back one day. I've heard that there is an opium tincture which sounds pretty good. Is there anything else that I could get OTC like benzos, stimulants or opiates that are easily obtained without a prescription?
I'm from Australia and I recently spent 2 weeks in England. In AU, it's a nightmare getting any tablets containing Pseudoephedrine. It's also a hassle buying codeine/ibuprofen or codeine/paracetamol tablets, but not too hard.
I went to a few pharmacies in different places, but ASDA and Boots were the two chains I visited most often, plus one that I can't remember the name of. I managed to walk out each time with Nurofen Plus or Sudafed without any real difficulty at all. Is this common? And because of the relative ease of purchasing Sudafed, is there a large Methamphetamine scene in UK? I was under the impression Amphetamine was more common in UK and Europe, but I may well be wrong.
Was I just lucky, maybe because I'm a foreigner, or is it generally easy to get these and other pharmacist only medicines in England?
One other question, I had a great time, save the 23 hour flight there and back, and would love to go back one day. I've heard that there is an opium tincture which sounds pretty good. Is there anything else that I could get OTC like benzos, stimulants or opiates that are easily obtained without a prescription?