I don't know why people keep saying its hard to get when its really not. Its prescribed for chronic back pain, that a lot of people suffer from. They give you a box of 100, so if you don't use it as much as its prescribed they easily build up. Like I said I could easily see my mum giving a box or two away to someone if they said they had a boyfriend with back pain. Some people are just not clued up about these things, my mum just sees them as strong pain killers, not a class C drug or whatever.
well given there is a special prescription for them different to regular prescriptions then your mum would have to be a bit slow to think it was fine to just give them away, also why would she go and get another prescription if she's already got enough at home.
She got off lightly and ignorance is no excuse. However, and this is a genuine question, you only know what you know, so aside from the suspect volume how was she supposed to know that it was illegal in Egypt? She might have thought that it was as legal as paracetamol etc.
well like you said ignorance is no excuse so you've answered your own question - if you don't know then it makes absolutely no difference - you'd have to be pretty dumb since it is tightly controlled in the UK and she blatantly didn't get it herself on prescription
Ironic post alert.
When you consider that in many ways, Paracetamol is actually considerably more dangerous...:/
for general use this is much more dangerous than paracetamol, you can use paracetamol regularly with pretty much no issues, use this stuff regularly and you can get yourself an addiction, withdrawal symptoms when you stop etc.. basically a real risk of becoming a smack head - less than other opioids thus why this became popular for a while - but it also has an antidepressant effect and that became an attractive combination for people to abuse it
Seen this on BBC news last night, it was a pretty big story. Coverage started out with"woman jailed for bringing in painkillers" so I watched with interest. Eventually they casually mention the name of tramadol like it's no big deal. Like it's comparable to aspirin.
I'm not anti-drugs but she's pretty much gotten what she deserves, if not less than that.
I think some of the bbc need locked up alongside her for sub-standard journalism.
Always worth reading multiple sources, lots of people seem to have knee jerk reactions to say daily mail stories but actually you'll find the BBC, the Guardian etc.. do similar things with their reporting too when they want to spin a particular view on it