Our beloved Government have mooted the idea of taking cold and flu medicines off the shelf as people are using them to make crystal meth. Apparently.
While I'm not denying this is happening I'm pretty sure that a knee-jerk reaction of clearing the shelves of lemsip, night nurse and benylin won't help. What it will do is start to place an intolerable pressure on GPs. In the past couple of years I've had 4/5 colds - probably pretty average. I've been to the doctor once (and I'm convinced it was a bout of the flu rather than a cold), the rest of the time I've dosed up on lemsip, night nurse, benylin, tixylixx, sudafed and got on with it. I think most people probably do.
The chaos that will ensue when everyone with a minor sniffle turns up at their GP needing a cold medicine doesn't bear thinking about.
Working time will be lost as people don't go into work but wait by their phones to be the first to get the one appointment available that day. Others will not bother and hope that they don't still have it in two weeks time when the next appointment is available.
Pharmacies will get much busier with chemists taking up much of their time on cold remedies.
And drug dealers will continue to manufacture crystal meth and causing misery in our communities.
Surely a better plan is to invest more in frontline policing to stop the drug dealers and leave the rest of us alone?
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Can't believe this would even be considered! I couldn't cope without Lemsip during my bouts of the cold, and I'm sure my doctor (based on only two visits mind you) reckons I'm a hypochondriac as it is!
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