Someone want to explain why the morning-after pill is only available by perscription?

[johnjohn320]

No "it's moral/immoral" debates here please-just never quite understood the logic behind making a pill called "the morning after pill" (for a reason) only available through perscription. In other words, you have to make an appointment/have a visit with the doctor to get the perscription, then go to the pharmacy and wait for it to be filled (assuming they have it). Seems a bit ironic and counterintuitive, no?

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

The morning after pill is availiable without prescription in California.

 

[clamum]

I'd like to know as well.

 

[Mo0o]

Welcome to US politics and bureaucracy

 

[natep]

I thought it worked up to a few days later, and that was just its nickname. I might be mistaken. It still doesn't make very much sense for the appointment though.

 

[RCN]

Originally posted by: natep
I thought it worked up to a few days later, and that was just its nickname. I might be mistaken.

72 hours

 

[HomeAppraiser]

They are birth control pills taken in higher dose. Birth control pills are prescription, not over the counter, so is the morning after pill. Some people cannot or should not take them because of the high dose of hormones.

 

[DAGTA]

Originally posted by: HomeAppraiser
They are birth control pills taken in higher dose. Birth control pills are prescription, not over the counter, so is the morning after pill. Some people cannot or should not take them because of the high dose of hormones.

Yeah.

The morning-after pill is not good for you. It's rough on the body; hence why it's controlled.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: HomeAppraiser
They are birth control pills taken in higher dose. Birth control pills are prescription, not over the counter, so is the morning after pill. Some people cannot or should not take them because of the high dose of hormones.

Yeah.

The morning-after pill is not good for you. It's rough on the body; hence why it's controlled.

Well yeah, but we trust the American people not to swallow 10 ibuprofen when they a bad headache, or chug a whole bottle of nyquil when they have a bad cold. Why don't we trust them to take only what they're supposed to of birth control pills, with the same warnings we put on every other drug out there?

 

[dug777]

over the counter here...

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: RCN

Originally posted by: natep
I thought it worked up to a few days later, and that was just its nickname. I might be mistaken.

72 hours

it's much more effective the earlier it's taken tho...

 

[RCN]

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: HomeAppraiser
They are birth control pills taken in higher dose. Birth control pills are prescription, not over the counter, so is the morning after pill. Some people cannot or should not take them because of the high dose of hormones.

Yeah.

The morning-after pill is not good for you. It's rough on the body; hence why it's controlled.

Not really. There are certain people who shouldn't take it but that is true of any drug.

The current delay is because there is not enough info on the effect on girls under 16. Which is really just BS.

It has become an abortion issue........

 

[DAGTA]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: HomeAppraiser
They are birth control pills taken in higher dose. Birth control pills are prescription, not over the counter, so is the morning after pill. Some people cannot or should not take them because of the high dose of hormones.

Yeah.

The morning-after pill is not good for you. It's rough on the body; hence why it's controlled.

Well yeah, but we trust the American people not to swallow 10 ibuprofen when they a bad headache, or chug a whole bottle of nyquil when they have a bad cold. Why don't we trust them to take only what they're supposed to of birth control pills, with the same warnings we put on every other drug out there?

It will probably become over the counter within a few more years.

 

[SilentZero]

Isn't taking 4 BC pills at the same time equivalent to the morning after pill? For some reason I remember them doing that back in the day.

 

[Xyclone]

I'm not sure if it is OTC here in Cali.

 

[swtethan]

whore moans

 

[Terumo]

Originally posted by: HomeAppraiser
They are birth control pills taken in higher dose. Birth control pills are prescription, not over the counter, so is the morning after pill. Some people cannot or should not take them because of the high dose of hormones.

Especially smokers. High increase of blood clots. And such blood clots are extremely deadly. Break off and lodge in the head -- stroke; break off in the heart -- MI; break off in the lung - ARDS, etc.

Birth control pills require a prescription because how deadly they can be. Doctors have to educate a patient not only in it's use, but adverse-effects that need to be watched for (like they're doing for heart/kidney patients and their medications).

Terumo

 

[Czar]

over the counter here... and let me tell you, my life would probably not be the same without them

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Czar
over the counter here... and let me tell you, my life would probably not be the same without them

Yes, but that's because you are lucky enough to live in a free country where right-wing fundamentalist evangelical Christians don't run the government.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: HomeAppraiser
They are birth control pills taken in higher dose. Birth control pills are prescription, not over the counter, so is the morning after pill. Some people cannot or should not take them because of the high dose of hormones.

that's true, but that's not really the reason why they're not OTC... they meet FDA requirements for OTC and were overwhelmingly recommended OTC status by the most recent FDA advisory panels. so it's not safety that's holding it back.

 

[SilentZero]

Because a bunch of lonely nerds from ATOT would buy it and take it for fun.

/thread

 

[Pepsei]

regular birthcontrol pill is perscripton only... and since back then, morning after pill was just birthcontrol pills in higher dose, there you go.

you can always visit a planned parenthood the next day and get it there. probably $10-$20.

 

[Murphy Durphy]

As mentioned, the Morning After Pill is merely regular birth control, 2 pills in fact. The issue is that if you make the MAP over the counter, since it is basically birth control, then birth control would become over the counter.

And then it becomes an abbortion/religious problem. Like all good problems.

 

[homestarmy]

So how much does it cost when you need to get it?

I think it should be as easy to get as possible. Many would be ashamed to get it. I can't see my girlfriend going to get it if necessary (though I would get it or make her etc if it came down to it).

 

[eakers]

Its now over the counter in a bunch of canadian provinces including ontario.