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Q: Can you still get antibiotics without a perscription in your city?
I hear the pharmacies have been saying no to people wanting to get them over-the-counter in some cities.
10 years 12 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
Yes. I think you can also get some rpetty decent happy pills like Xanax clones. Self-medication is awesome... Oh wait, how would I have written that had I been on Xanax.... "Self-medication is medium good"
Antibiotics over the counter, it's a disaster in the making. It's a good thing that they are available only on prescription.
*** Dr Monkey Evening's Show : Antibiotics & Darwinian Evolution ***
Over-prescription, over-usage of antibiotics is creating an evolutionary pressure on the infecting micro-organism. Micro-organism mutates very fast, as they have short life cycles. Statistically, a smaller number of micro-organism are resistant to antibiotics. A massive, indiscriminate usage of antibiotics give a huge reproductive advantage to those resistant microorganism. Within a few years, the resistance to the antibiotic become the rule rather than the exception. It happened for several antibiotics already.
Scandinavian:
This is a good comment. The problem is not only in China, but actually the majority of the world. Not only antibiotics for humans, but also the overuse in farming is a threat to humans.
We all hail 'prevention' in China
I don't eat pills! When prescribed by MD, I just bring them home.
It is very easy. Go into any 'pharmacy' and ask for 'Amoxicillin'. Very available and cheap.
No prescription necessary.
Yes, you can get them here no problem. I bought some yesterday.
I can buy them in the pharmacy downstairs...over the counter.
But I discovered that too late. If only I had known.... my ji ji might still be intact rather than in a jam jar 
