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I keep saying this but without a public healthcare system open to all then prescriptions should be done away with and all drugs should be available. If folks have to do their own healthcare they should be unfettered.
It used to be the way the world was. The result was huge amounts of addiction (laudanum was 10% opium), and gullible people being peddled snake oil.
The snake-oil part is solved by prohibiting scientifically unproven claims. Laudanum was sold as a cure-all; obviously as a society we don't want to allow opiates to be marketed for everything from allopecia to zika.
Mexico's pharma industry works like this to some extent. You can walk into a .mx pharmacy and get yourself antibiotics, boner pills, a CPAP machine, hormonal birth control, and much much more without a doctor's note. Purity doesn't seem to be a big problem; you generally don't have to worry that it might be 10% opium or whatever. International travelers can bring up to 3 months' personal supply back to the U.S., which would be tricky if border officials' drug-sniffing dogs routinely flagged contaminant drugs of concern in medication inspections.
Which is why we should have a public healthcare system which then it makes sense to have the limits but with a system of its all on you well maybe you get by with opium because the cure is to expensive. I mean how much addiction back then was folks dealing with constant pain from how shitty society was back then?
There are medications that if not used correctly harm everyone.
Antibiotics cause antibiotic resistant strains, and if you don't take the full dose it gets worse. As such their used needs to be monitored closely.
Some drugs cause mental issues. you shouldn't drive after taking alcohol - also don't drive after taking many pain killers. Again we need to watch this closely since you can harm someone else.
If someone I don't know harms themselves I could say none of my business (this is a debatable moral issue, but at least you can understand that side). However if you harm someone else that is a problem.
Which again is why we should have universal healthcare so its fair if society restricts these things.
And closer to evolutionary mechanisms of having favorite pills taken every time you feel bad, and eventually winning the Darwin award.
Not sure.
A lot of countries have prescriptions required, but without such prices for everything as in the USA. Maybe that's not the problem.
Yeah that is my main point ultimately. We should have universal healthcare because everyone take care of themselves does not work out great.