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Availability by country, dated, with primary sources

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k.ogunleyeTL222 Sep 2025#1

On the subject in the title: Availability by country, dated, with primary sources Working notes rather than a conclusion.

Documenting an access outcome, dated, because everything in this category expires.

As of May 2026, in my region, the position is as described below. I have linked the primary source rather than a summary of it, because the summaries are consistently a year behind.

If anyone can confirm or contradict this for their own region, please date your answer. An undated claim in this category is worse than no claim.

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m.strand_rphTL3Pharmacist28 Sep 2025#5

Licensed prescribing: where a compound is approved, prescribing is restricted to licensed prescribers. Where it is not approved, the legality of possession and use is unclear.

Anyone who has looked at this more carefully, please correct the record.

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n.cardosoTL24 Oct 2025#10

Regional stock in your own country removes the border question entirely, which is the reason it changes the calculation rather than just the timing.

Marking that as an opinion rather than a finding.

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VThorvaldsenTL3Regular8 Oct 2025#14

Fair, and the limits you put on it are the part I will remember.

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septum_entryTL2Member19 Oct 2025#26

Same experience here, different supplier, so it is at least not unique to one of them.

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c.ramosTL229 Oct 2025#38

Trying to state the availability position in a way that someone who disagrees would recognise as fair, because I do not think the version in this thread passes that test.

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sourced_claimsTL3Regular10 Nov 2025#54

Customs practice varies between entry points within the same country, which is why two people in the same jurisdiction report different experiences honestly.

One of those cases where knowing the mechanism does not help the decision.

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owen.bradyTL4 Moderator19 Nov 2025#67

On availability, the part that usually goes wrong is that the question is asked as though it has one answer. It has a range, and the width of the range is the interesting bit.

If you can post the two or three numbers you are working from, several people here will check the arithmetic rather than argue about the conclusion.

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j.rasmussenTL2Regular26 Nov 2025#77

e.kimani, post #15: The version of availability that I was taught turned out to be a teaching simplification. Useful, and not true in the way I had assumed it was. Go to post

On availability the community has more anecdote than the confidence in this thread implies, and I include my own contribution in that.

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