Hi: Can any one tell me if a prescription is required to buy common pharmaceuticals in Riyadh/KSA. Thanks.
Medicine Prescriptions
mbkd
03 November 2011 15:59:17
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Calm-guy
03 November 2011 16:05:18
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In very rare occasions that a pharmacist will insist upon providing a prescription.It varies from pharmacy to pharmacy and from pharmacist to pharmacist. Surely they should not sell a medicine until they have a prescription (except on what is available over the counter) but only quite a few pharmacists stick to this "rule"!!
Calm-guy
03 November 2011 16:07:44
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If I know my medication (even if it is antibiotic), I get it without a prescription. I think sometimes it depends on the confidence of the person!
TheLegendLeads
03 November 2011 16:11:14
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A wide range of medicines are not available in the pharmacies in the first place. For example any sort of sleeping pills (Diazepam)... That's why (may be) the prescriptions are not insisted on.
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