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Excellent point J_Drei,
I've spoken to alot of foreign doctors and they tell me that in alot of third-world countries, you can walk into a pharmacy request a benzo and there is no script needed, they are over the counter, even in England certain low dose codeine products are available over the counter. I recently to spoke to a "Pakistani" doctor and he told me that all you have to do in "Pakistan" is ask the pharmacist for a benzo and it available to you right there and then. And to top it off, inspite of the benzos being over the counter, the citizens of those countries don't even abuse the meds, most people are not even aware of benzos being over the counter. Maybe it's just that they tend to live less stressful life or they are use to the proverty in certain areas of the world that in reality the poverty is something they've learned to accept and live with. The places where benzos are in demand are where there is a high-level of overall stress that permeates "society" causing people to seek relief in whatever form they can find it in. It sure as hell keeps the "Medical Forum" (Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists and allied health fields) in business. I mean there should be some regulation on meds, but the direction the goverment is taking now is ludricous, they want to introduce prescription monitoring software and compile a patient's med profile into a state databases in all states. It's already started in Florida, the "Rush Limburgh" publicity didn't help it none. And one mistake (something as mundane as a typo" from an customer can have you labeled as a "Drug Seeker" and then you're flagged for life and no doctor or pharmacy wants to deal with you. And all you wanted was either "Stress-Relief or Pain-Relief". Which are legitimate reasons to visit a doctor. For Example, In New York City, all benzos are required to be written on a "Triplicate Script", which means no automatic refills allowed causing you to visit the doctor on a monthly basis if you want a refill and a reluctance from the doctor's point-of-view finding a way to avoid writing a "Triplicate Script", so they start you on anti-depressants first, this may or may not help certain types of anxiety, in some cases it might make the anxiety worse, after building a history of trying an anti-depressant and noting from the patient that they haven't help the patient, they then proceed to benzos. This entire process can take two months. Since most anti-depressants claim to take about 4-6 weeks before they are effective. And to top it off alot of the new anti-depressants are brand name only and are expensive. Most benzos come in generic form and are "REELLY" cheap. And on top of that most doctors will tell you, "Oh, we don't practice out of our specialty", so now you're force to go to a psychiatrists, most health plans don't cover psychiatrists vists or if they do, you still have to pay a significant amount of the office visit, which can run anywhere from "$80.00 to $125.00" for a half-hour visit. It's impossible to get a benzo from a regular "GP" on the first visit, they don't know "U" from a hole in the wall and they want to first probe "U" out before they prescribe a benzo, that usually takes about three visits, before they feel comfortable with you. That's why online consultations from a domestic medical website do such a brisk business and why "IOPs" are the rave right now. Cuz they know that there is a demand for "benzos" and other meds in the U.S. and they can supply that demand, cuz in their countries those meds are over the counter and cheap to begin with. Tack on the shipping and increase the price on the meds, they can make a killing within months of starting a "IOP". Yea this is a bit off-topic but it is a valid point, the government needs to let the doctors do their jobs without any beaucratic red-tape, once the "Docs" get the approval that it's okay to prescribe certain classes of meds then they will more then happy to comply with patients who have a true need and have establish that need with "Documentation" and "Justification". Afterall it would increase the overall "patient base" of a doctor thus increasing their "profits" and at the same time the patient would receive the relief they are seeking. From the look of things, I would stock-up now, cuz in the not too distant future it's going harder and harder to receive certain meds. And there will a "falling-out" between the doctor and patient relationships as each seeks their own interests which in reality will become a conflict if stringent regulatory policies are introduced into state laws. Good Luck to us all!!!

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