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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
One of the nice things about living in Thailand is that I can buy 10% Lidocaine pump spray over the counter. With my life-style, I'm frequently getting scratched up! A little squirt'll do ya!
Stitchawl
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There are very strict rules about painkillers in the Netherlands. A couple of years ago they banned over the counter sales of higher dosages of common painkillers (eg. ibuprofen), a year or so later they realised that people simply took two instead of one pill to combat pain so they banned packages with more than 20 pills for most painkillers.
Officially it's to stop people from trying to harm themselves by taking a lot of painkiller but unofficially it's suspected that it's to support the pharmacy's (which sell prescription drug) because they make less money because of new rules around the same time as the ban on higher dosages.