TOT: kaolin and morphine

I've not seen the real stuff for years. I'm pretty sure it hasn't been available for ages. I once tried to buy it in the USA and thought I was going to be arrested.

I think it's been superceeded by other medicines. In particular Loperamide.

Loperamide is an opioid, but it doesn't cross the blood/brain barrier, so it has no recreational use and is therefore not controlled.

I think its now prescription only as junkies were distilling it

Update: It is still available but pharmacists do't seem to want to stock it.

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Known, if I've got it right, as 'Turkey Rhubarb' by my grandmother who used to 'use' it fairly frequently. As a boy at the time, I had no idea of the contents...

If you google for it under the brand name - ie: Care Kaolin and Morphine - the first page lists quite a few places that used to stock it but two (Co-operative Healthcare and LLoyds Pharmacy) that claim they still do. Scroll through a few more pages and you should be able to pluck a few remaining stockists out of the rest.

HTH

Nick

Its the Morphine bit, it has to be on prescription due to the paranoia of people getting addicted, though a memory of the taste might suggest this should be unlikely! Brian

You should try Oramorph. Lovely.

My nanny used to put laudanum on my dummy to keep me quiet.

Larger Boots stores still have it behind the pharmacy counter. I bought some in 2015. It has a use-by date of 2016 but I don't think it 'goes off' as such, you just have to give it a really good shake to bring the kaolin back into suspension.

Brilliant for those rare occasions when gastric flu is doing the rounds, or I have been buying reduced for quick sale stuff in the supermarkets. The worst I can ever remember was low-calory egg mayonnaise. I was puking up gruesome-looking stuff for 36 hours. Won't make that mistake again.

Another thing that seems to have vanished is Ingram lanolin shaving cream. My local inde pharmacy says they can no longer get it.

No, it was never on prescription. For many years Boots made buyers sign a register, but that's it. I believe the druggies were buying it and extracting the morphine.

Signing for it ceased some time ago, but finding it on sale is more of a problem. Horsham Boots were selling in 2015, where I bought a replacement for the 10-year-out-of-date bottle that I keep for puking emergencies.

'Superseded' !!!.

Most pharmacies prefer to flog high-margin stuff in fancy packaging.

Kaolin and Morphine is cheap, little profit.

Never on prescription. Larger Boots do (did in 2015) sell it.

You're supposed to take it in a small quantity of warm water, not neat .

More seriously, people were becoming addicted and drinking huge quantities of the kaolin mixture, and getting terrifying, lfe-threatening constipation.