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Every single nation hat it's own array of sedatives and hypnotics. It really did end up with there being hundreds of pills and capsules out there with the makers each claiming the superiority of their product(s).
It's fascinating because so often medications whose use was limted to one or at most a handful of nations were largely overlooked by the UNODC list.
The UK still has chlormethiazole (Heminevrin™) and chlormezanone (Trancopal™) was only discontinued because of a rare but serious side-effect. Even before that things like acecarbromal (Sedamyl™) were replaced by something newer i.e. on-patent and and the common denominator is that possession of any of them isn't a crime.
France still has etifoxine (Stresam™) and certainly had Centalun™ (generic and propriatory names were the same) and fenadiazole (Hynazol™) and again, no law against having any of them.
If you are prepared to spend the time researching, you realize that the UNODC essentially only tried to ban CLASSES of medication so if something was unusual, usually it was either overlooked or considered to be something the nation that prescribed it should legally control.
I'm unsure if the bromides or the sulfonyl class of sedatives came first but due to the slow onset and extreme duration of action meant that both had essentially been replaced before someone descided that well informed adults shouldn't have the right to consume whatever they choose to and it seems to me that the stricter the control, the worse it is for the users.
It's fascinating because so often medications whose use was limted to one or at most a handful of nations were largely overlooked by the UNODC list.
The UK still has chlormethiazole (Heminevrin™) and chlormezanone (Trancopal™) was only discontinued because of a rare but serious side-effect. Even before that things like acecarbromal (Sedamyl™) were replaced by something newer i.e. on-patent and and the common denominator is that possession of any of them isn't a crime.
France still has etifoxine (Stresam™) and certainly had Centalun™ (generic and propriatory names were the same) and fenadiazole (Hynazol™) and again, no law against having any of them.
If you are prepared to spend the time researching, you realize that the UNODC essentially only tried to ban CLASSES of medication so if something was unusual, usually it was either overlooked or considered to be something the nation that prescribed it should legally control.
I'm unsure if the bromides or the sulfonyl class of sedatives came first but due to the slow onset and extreme duration of action meant that both had essentially been replaced before someone descided that well informed adults shouldn't have the right to consume whatever they choose to and it seems to me that the stricter the control, the worse it is for the users.
