never heard of that, but it does contain codeine so no wonder it works.
Buying painkillers at Sainsburys
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Quite.
Had not heard of it either.
Had not heard of it either.
Back in the day at Southampton Uni, one of the Halls was a tower-block (Southwood??)
It had a rep for "Jumpers" from the top floor balcony. (15 floor??)
The "Solution" was to install windows on the top floor balcony so you couldn't jump.
The interesting thing was that it wasn't felt necessary to put windows in to block off any of the other balconies.
Jumpers always go to the top. Once stymied they give up. They don't go down one floor and try again :/
I'd say that's probably quite a big problem
The antibiotic issue is also a big problem, and unfortunately I am part of the problem.
I constantly get ear infections and I am in the air at least once a fortnight going somewhere or the other. I simply cant afford to risk having an ear infection during a flight.
I have a drawer full of them at home, and I take them away with me when I travel.
Most of the time I am obviously ok, but when I need them.....I need them.
The last time I needed them was on holiday in May. Thankgod I had my stash with me.
that's probably where some of the issues with antibiotics resistance arise, it isn't just GPs over here dishing them out like candy but some less developed countries have basically no regulations at all and
indeed, maybe parts of the US have a blanket ban on selling that OTC, I guess as the amount of codeine is relatively small it is OK to sell in the UK without prescription
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I can't drink alcohol. So chugging Scotch is not applicable.
Dissolving a soluble aspirin on the tooth/gum + clove oil in a cotton bud held against the area = pain gone within minutes
I'd say that's probably quite a big problem
Steroids are unlikely to cause harm to the average user, methadone on the other hand... it's the antibiotics however that are the big problem.
Dissolving a soluble aspirin on the tooth/gum + clove oil in a cotton bud held against the area = pain gone within minutes
Very bad idea, aspirin is caustic and will cause burns if held against the mouth tissues.
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I just tried it with Tesco, and yeah apparently the 2-pack limit applies to ibuprofen too. I must have 7 or 8 packs at home though because I just keep them in different places like bedside drawer, bathroom, downstairs, in my backpack. Prolly got a pack in my work's drawer too.
this is true, suicide isnt always a big well planned event.
it's also not a persistent mental state.
some times a delay of a few minutes may be enough foe the person's mind to regain control and remove the compulsion to end it
Ah I thought since you lived in Germany atm you'd be a fluent German speaker
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Ah I thought since you lived in Germany atm you'd be a fluent German speaker
sadly not, i'm doing that stereotypical thing of speaking english slowly with the locals, fortunately it works here (mostly)
i do have a bit of german, enough to pass interactions in shops and things, but nowhere enough to hold an actual conversation
Went to Austria for a week's hiking some time in 2006 iirc, and initially had planned to at least try speaking German... until we found that a) everyone spoke perfect English and b) some people became irritated when we tried to speak German (like in a shop or something when they just wanted us to hurry along).
It was b) that killed it for me. Sure I'll try to speak your language if you don't act visibly annoyed when I try, but if you do.... **** off
After a couple days gave up completely and just spoke English. Not even slowly
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i've had folks just switch to English the moment they hear my accent, and the multicultural crew we have at our place (from columbia to iran and everywhere inbetween, except France) are all using English because it's the one language everybody understands, i wouldn't have said that was the case had i not seen it happen.
not had anyone seem annoyed at my lack of German, confused maybe but so far i've generally managed to get the message across, i think the strangest conversation was when i was getting a haircut and her English was about the same level as my German so we ended up with a weird gerglish (or engman?) mish mash but ended up having about as much conversation as can normally be achieved when getting a haircut.
not had anyone seem annoyed at my lack of German, confused maybe but so far i've generally managed to get the message across, i think the strangest conversation was when i was getting a haircut and her English was about the same level as my German so we ended up with a weird gerglish (or engman?) mish mash but ended up having about as much conversation as can normally be achieved when getting a haircut.
That stuff has 8mg of codeine. I have bought pills containing 12.8mg of codeine without a prescription. They're commonplace in the UK. I wouldn't buy a brand name pack, though. Generic is the same drug and much cheaper. It can only be sold at a pharmacy, though, so it's only partly OTC.
Apparently the USA has a big problem with opiods at the moment. Maybe that's the reason for the ban. Maybe it's possible to extract the codeine and make a stronger opiod from it. I have no idea, but it sounds like something that might be possible.
A baggie of codeine?
Or a prescription or over the counter medicine?
The first one will get you done over everywhere that gives a dam about drugs.
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Why do you need so many?! You can only take 1/2 a day, and if it carries on for that long surely you should have got yourself to a dentist by that point?
It was quite a shock when they made the change a few years back and instead of buying a pot of 50 or 100 aspirin or paracetemol you had to make do with a blister pack of 16, for around the same price too.
Re codeine, if you're subject to any form of occupational or other random drug screening, need to be wary as these will flag up as opiates and unless previously disclosed could cost you your job.
Re codeine, if you're subject to any form of occupational or other random drug screening, need to be wary as these will flag up as opiates and unless previously disclosed could cost you your job.
Oh god, I regularly (possibly permentantly) suffer from ear infections in my right ear and my GP has been reluctant to refer me to ear, nose and throat specialist for somebody to take a proper look.
I just googlged 'Flying with an ear infection' after reading your post as I've got a few flights coming up. It seems my ear is going explode.