Question 16347 — pharmacy and medications

Summary

Mr. Grégory Besson-Moreau alerts the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the regulation of the sale of medicines without a prescription, and the pressure exerted by the E. Leclerc group to extend it to supermarkets. For several years, this group, which claims to be in contact with the Ministry of Health, has ostensibly campaigned for an end to the monopoly of pharmacies on the distribution of medicines without prescriptions such as self-tests or patches. The Competition Authority could adopt this proposal soon. These maneuvers are strongly denounced by professionals in the sector who warn of the risks arising from the trivialization of health products and their assimilation to everyday consumer products. Indeed, the pharmaceutical activity is governed by strict ethical principles giving priority to profits. for patients on financial benefits, which seems incompatible with the logic of mass distribution. Due to their medical training, pharmacists are also the only ones who can fully advise and warn about drug incompatibilities. Thus, in a national context of abusive recourse to self-medication, recently illustrated by a death due to paracetamol poisoning, the deregulation of medications concerned would constitute a major risk of excess mortality, as we have seen in Sweden and the United States. Consequently, he asks him what the Government's intentions are in terms of deregulating the sale of medicines without prescriptions, reminding him that the interests of patients must prevail over private economic interests.

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