The Government regulated the sale of painkillers and antacids in businesses not formally authorized as pharmacies. The new right contemplated in the presidential decree is already used in some businesses that are not pharmacies.
However, doubts and little enthusiasm arise from the different sectors involved in the measure. The effects of this regulation, which for now faces very diverse sectors, only united at this moment by the dramatic drop in consumption. The Government of Javier Milei is not far from its general disruptive, sometimes disturbing imprint. The topic, in fact, does not make anyone completely happy. The decree is reunited with historical positions embodied in well-known actors and laboratories and pharmacies. It is not clear what is meant by an analgesic and what is mean by an antacid. The text does not detail it. The first of these cases, the wide world "painkiller", gives rise to important ambiguity. It can be either an over-the-counter remedy that is self-classified as such (paracetamol, ibuprofen...)