Selling OTC in the convenience store

It is often said that the medicine should not sold at convenience store. However, I think convenience store should sell non-prescription drug for these two reasons; it gives more convenient for people to get medicine which they need, and selling medicine in the store is not the reason that causes side effects of abusing medicine.

To begin with, selling medicine in the store gives faster access for people to get the medicine. This is because most pharmacies usually close early and it is not located everywhere especially in country side. For example, when I traveled local area in Korea, I got a digest problem because of ingesting too much food. I just needed a digestive, but the convenience store near at me did not sell it. So, I had to take a bus and had to go to the downtown to get that medicine. I felt really inconvenience.

Second, buying non-prescription medicine in convenience store does not affect to increase the rate of side effect caused by non-prescription medicine. This is because people already can buy non-prescription medicine in pharmacies. If there is a problem, non-prescription medicine should not be sold even in the pharmacy. According to research conducted by USA and Korean government, the rate of side effects by abusing the medicine has been increased in the past couple years. USA sells OTC in stores but Korea does not. This result shows that selling in convenience store is not really related to causing side effects.

To sum up, I think stores should sell the medicine for people’s convenience. However, there is still some points in that we should be careful. Abusing non-prescription medicine is still dangerous problem. So, before the government stats this new policy, they should make more regulations, that can prevent abusing medicine, such as restricting buying age and limiting the amount of medicine that people can buy one time.