Under the apparent consideration of Australia's National Drugs and Poisons Scheduling Committee (NDPSC) is making one of the most popular over-the-counter (OTC) medicines against pain available only with a prescription.

The first candidate to become prescription-only drug is beloved by masses Nurofen Plus. This medication contains 200 milligrams of ibuprofen and 12.8 milligrams of codeine. From the proved source it became known that this pain remedy could soon become a Schedule 8 drug like with morphine and methadone.

Being one of the strongest among OTC painkillers available in Australia, Nurofen Plus has been widely used by many people for treatment of toothache, pains that women experience during their periods, plethora of other common painful conditions. Nurofen can be bought OTC in packs of up to 72 tablets. Also in this amount it is available on the Internet.

According to the Pharmacy Guild of Australia the move would cost the nation millions of dollars and inconvenience thousands of legitimate patients.

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