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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by benj111 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @04:57AM (#34653212)
I suspect this is location specific though. In the UK my migraine medication was available over the counter, I still had to have a discussion with the pharmacist every time I bought it. Conversely when ever I've needed an actual prescription medication, in an emergency or whatever, that has always had to go through my doctor to get the prescription sorted.
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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by denton-scratch on Saturday February 04, 2023 @07:14AM (#34653882)
/me also a brit.

My go-to pain-relief used to be a product called Codis, which was soluble aspirin+codeine. It used to be available OTC, until about 8 years ago, then it disappeared. You can still buy paracetamol+codeine OTC ("Paracodol?). My understanding is that aspirin causes vasodilation, which causes more rapid absorption of codeine. Supposedly that's why Codis worked better than Paracodol.

I don't know why they took it off the shelves. There was no announcement; it just disappeared.

Codis was effective for both migraines and period pains, as reported to me (I'm not a woman, and I don't suffer from migraines).

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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by benj111 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @07:22AM (#34653933)
This was migraleve it didn't have any painkilling element in the first tablet (it was 2 parts) not much point anyway as by that point I was throwing up.
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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by deathclassic on Saturday February 04, 2023 @12:06PM (#34655988)
asprin + codiene sounds like a based painkiller combo. Who needs a liver tbh?
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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by heavyset_go on Saturday February 04, 2023 @09:50PM (#34661230)
It's paracetamol that's hard on the liver, not aspirin or codeine.
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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by throwanem on Saturday February 04, 2023 @08:13AM (#34654193)
Well, sure, countries will have their own laws over this or anything. Ours are defined at the federal level and thus apply the same everywhere in the country; since GGP and I are both USian, that's the basis on which I replied. (I don't know enough about any other country's such laws to speak to them!)
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