There are so many vitamin supplements and other drugs which many countries you can get without medic’s prescription. What are your suggestions on this topic? Many medication if used long-term can lead to kidney diseases.
Excessive use of barbiturates and other sleep inducing drugs among, over the counter medications, must be regulated, but not all medications of common ailments should be restricted for general public as, it will lead to further worsening of common ailments.
I think it should be checked to avoid overdose or abuse.
There are always checks on this, but creating awareness and educating the general public will do a better job.
Where is the real difference between medication and counter medication?
The legal aspect can only regulate economic access.
There are many 'Gibraltars' of medication, not only the kidneys.
What is regular medication, in terms of Markov laws of medical decision-making?
Is homeopathy counter medication, for example?
Even vitamins and food supplements should be administered only as a doctor prescription
While there are arguments for control of drugs and other substances, the other side of this argument is why we allow ourselves to be controlled and treated like children by overweening authorities. If I choose to take vitamins (I don't) that is my choice not for someone else to choose.
excessive use of any medication has to be checked as it might causes several damage to healthy persons
Excessive medication has for years been an established problem with doctors prescribing drugs like sweets. Most people are more careful about drugs than most physicians.
"Everything is poison and everything is a cure. Only the dose determines whether a substance is a medicine or a poison," a quote from Avicenna. People who are not doctors, can determine the dose, regardless of whether they were medicines, vitamins or something else.
The difference between legal drugs and recreational drugs is absurd. All this artificial separation does it keeps the principal manufacture of drugs in the hands of large pharmaceutical companies and in the control of doctors, while in acts of remarkable hypocrisy putting in prison those outside of these two power bases who provide the same or similar drugs. There have to date been at least four tranquillizer and anti-depressive drug epidemics that have covered the western world involving millions. As each time governments cover them up, and no doctor or pharmaceutical company is penalised, they continue.
