Disclaimer: This is hypothetical. I'm not encouraging anyone to go out and buy illegal substances. Hope i'm not breaking the TOU.
Recently in the UK it was revealed that doctors were generally reluctant to prescribe strong pain medications (opiates) to people in extreme pain. This is supposed to be corrected, but it does get me thinking about what medications are so important that you can't rely on the NHS and just hope they've got it in the budget to prescribe if you get sick. Personally i've experienced the budget cuts with refusal to send out ambulances, an over reliance on paracetamol and reluctance to take xrays in the E.R. so do believe that they would currently prefer to withhold what they deem non-essential treatments.
So what would you like not to be without if bad times hit?
I'll start with:
Antibiotics
Valium
Sleeping pills?
A strong indica
A box of asthma inhalers (why are these so restricted in the uk?)
Recently in the UK it was revealed that doctors were generally reluctant to prescribe strong pain medications (opiates) to people in extreme pain. This is supposed to be corrected, but it does get me thinking about what medications are so important that you can't rely on the NHS and just hope they've got it in the budget to prescribe if you get sick. Personally i've experienced the budget cuts with refusal to send out ambulances, an over reliance on paracetamol and reluctance to take xrays in the E.R. so do believe that they would currently prefer to withhold what they deem non-essential treatments.
So what would you like not to be without if bad times hit?
I'll start with:
Antibiotics
Valium
Sleeping pills?
A strong indica
A box of asthma inhalers (why are these so restricted in the uk?)