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31 March 2020
Paracetamol medicines were the main beneficiary when codeine medicines were reverse-switched from non-prescription to prescription-only status in Australia on 1 February 2018, according to research just published in the Medical Journal of Australia.
17 January 2020
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) is seeking sales data on codeine-containing medicines as it reviews whether such products should remain available without a prescription.
5 December 2019
New Zealand is set to reverse-switch all medicines containing codeine from non-prescription to prescription status.
4 December 2018
The vast majority of Switzerland's pharmacy-only category of non-prescription medicines will be available in drugstores from early 2019, but some will be reverse-switched. In addition, the country is increasing the number of non-prescription medicines available on general sale in all retail outlets...