Opinion | Banning promethazine/codeine cough syrup won't stop abuse
Recently, when I logged on to see what medication refills had come in, I was greeted with a notice that Walgreens would no longer carryThis doesn't affect me much. As a neurologist I've never prescribed it, and as a patient I've never used it.
A friend of mine commented that if everything that can be abused gets banned, all we'll be left with are Tylenol and Preparation H. Another friend made the comment that it's a shame, becauseI agree with both of them, but Walgreens is pulling only the combo preparation off the shelves. Codeine andEven if every pharmacy were to drop promethazine/codeine cough syrup, and it was withdrawn from the market, it wouldn't keep people from abusing it.
I agree with it, mostly, but there are those who truly do need it at times, and who now will have to take it as individual components, or find a pharmacy that does carry it. The issue here becomes that, by punishing the abusers, you're also punishing the responsible.
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