drugs?

My favourite film is 'Drugstore Cowboy' which is set in the 1970s and features the large signs outside US pharmacies that proclaim 'DRUGS' in bright fluro letters. I've always wanted to see these. Given the so-called "War on Drugs" in the US I can't help but find a bittersweet irony in seeing these signs. Even more ironic is the misleading nature of them. Both Leeanne and I are suffering from major back, neck and other bad bed and pillow related aches and pains so we walked into a 'drugstore' hoping to get some voltaren (really, just any anti-inflammatory) and some panadiene (or at least some sort of codiene product). This is the point at which the pharmacist advises us that no such products are available in the US without first seeing a doctor (and we all know how accessible and cheap the US healthcare system is don't we?!!). After directing us to some heat packs and natural remedies we left empty handed and counted out our last remaining pain relievers to be taken only on the verge of death from now on...