UK ‘weeks away’ from medicine shortages if Iran war continues, experts say

80mg sr? Cos the 160mg is back in stock but it's the 80 I need. Been on it for over a decade. Instant release has given me nothing but problems.

Huh, seems weird they'd do that instead of prescribing a lower amount of instant release that'd be equal to what your blood concentration would of been on the slow release, but have you take it 2-3 times a day.

unfortunately after the starmerpocalypse it's pretty likely that reform will win the next election, and it's all but guaranteed they'll do Brexit, but dumber

Unfortunately stimulant shortage in US isn't some kind of mistake. It's by design plan by DEA. They have been maliciously manipulating wrong quotas for producers for last few years to produce this effect.

Yeah this list is bad

You are really not supposed to do that You have to taper off of them carefully or you could give yourself serotonin syndrome

The first sentence of the linked article: > There are currently 215 active medicine shortages Calling it "dozens" is really understating it, but if you'd read any of the article you'd know it's not a mere 24 medications they're talking about.

Ironically, I'm on medication now because my old prescription was always more beer lol

My matron at school did once tell me that drinking Guinness would help my glandular fever. My 97yr old grandma also swears by it.

And how COVID itself strained worldwide logistic chains.

Still baffles me that nobody was able to reign the administration in and not beat it into their skulls that this whole attack on Iran was a TERRIBLE idea. Then I remember they fired anyone with more then a single braincell.

Exactly. Globalization is a major stabilization force in the world. When people felt upon each other to produce goods and services, there’s pressure to remain cooperative.

Election has consequences….

We found out how vulnerable globalization is during COVID. It's about securing resources now. Europe is very dependent on oil coming from the Strait of Hormuz, as is China. Whoever becomes the dominant leader in the middle east will have an economic upper hand.

Making life sustaining medicine supplies dependent on international relations is dumb though since there are tons of things like natural disasters that could also interrupt the flow of goods. Pharmaceutical manufacturing shouldn't be exclusively on the other side of the planet.

Well the other problem is it requires everyone to be on the same page to start with. And a lot of countries like Russia will never be. And even excluding war it also is problematic when worker/environment protections are so much worse in countries where production is outsourced too. So maybe the concept is more flawed than it appears overall.

That’s where sanctions become a bad tool though. If the only way for your economy to be productive for the average citizen is access to global markets then all sanctions do is hurt the normal population.

It kind of sounds like how nuclear weapons have resulted in fewer great powers conflicts...when it works, it works. When it fails it fails BAD.

They basically are forced to though, because people won't support the costs of things like redundancy or domestic production that would alleviate the single points of failure. If there's even one company accepting the risk in order to produce more cheaply, they'll dominate others who can't offer same product at same cost. And if taxpayers don't allow the government to provide necessary funding to compensate, then there's basically no choice.

A turnip would cause far less destruction.

i mean if you can get it online for that c**** thats lucky at leasr. lets hope it doesnt get to where online is sold out.

I think this is just an issue with your p******* in particular. I can go to any regular store around me and get Aspirin, for way less than £7.

Is there not a way you can get it on prescription yourself? I used to have aspirin on prescription during a previous pregnancy due to pre eclampsia risk. Not that even having it on prescription can help when there's shortages of the medication - it's a really worrying situation, I'm sorry.

Scalps have to be scalped

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They don't care about Americans dying.. the only thing that matters is hoarding money

yes short of radical violence, this is all we can do. we have to change those in power for things to change. not sure but it seems like work thinks we’re complicit for not moving to behead those in government. it’s like saying “you know how you win against the bad guys? become bad guys!”

are you joking? you’re giving 77M (if that) all the power jfc if people focused more on the 200m that didn’t vote for trump (includes non voters) everyone would be better off. these comments feel more like encouraging complicity or giving up in advance. you can give up but stop trying to convince people they should too

Without some hope that US residents care about their community (family, closest friends, work associates, mpg 'bros' and other affinity groups), this semi-functional.democracy with a highly finicially-dependent/governed socity/culture will disintegrate into disconnected regionally based nation states. It's not gotten that bad yet. But there is very real strains.

"There's not going to be a fuel shortage in the West" I don't know why people keep saying this because it's just not true. It might not happen as quickly, but oh my yes it is going to happen. The west does not have the refining capacity to be self sufficient. Never has, never will. It can have all the oil in the world, and it wouldn't matter because it can't refine enough of it. The west and in particular the USA is walking straight towards mass starvation and food riots. There were fuel shortages in the 70's when less of the fuel was affected during those gulf conflicts and there was less overall demand. But the situation now is several times worse because there is even less available now with even less potentially available week after week, or conversely there are several times more oil production and capacity that has been lost. And, the demand is several fold higher. So, it doesn't matter where the oil supply chain has or has not been impacted, because it doesn't work in piecemeal. It's all 1 singular supply because of how the markets have formed. If you pinch off any part of it, the whole is impacted. No one is set up to handle all of their own needs, and everyone has been completely reliant on this world-wide system. I could go into why that's the case but the Tl;dr of it is OPEC makes investing in your own local oil industry impossible because no investor is going to drop billions of dollars to build all that extraction and refining capacity just to be undercut by OPEC.

That’s more than likely true. Can’t wait for dump to declare victory for a 15th time and continue to gaslight his base