Piracetam and the Australian law bureaucracy

[SaBReT00tH]

Hi guys,

I understand since approx 2007 Piracetam (Nootropil) is schedule IV meaning if importing (as it is not produced in Australia) one requires a doctors prescription. I've been to the doctor to try and get one before and she saw it was not available in Australia and did not know enough about it to prescribe it, and wanted to refer me to a Neurologist, so I would then have to pay a specialist fee and try and get them to prescribe it which is ridiculous!! I've even contacted one of the senior pharmacologists from the TGA experimental drugs section to ask how one can get prescription if they don't even understand the substance properly enough let alone endorse/prescribe it and they really had no answer and were unhelpful.

Has anyone had any experiences in trying to get a piracetam prescription with any practitioner and/or know of any contacts or even ways/methods of obtaining one?

I also recently read that a person on a forum in 2011 was informed Aniracetam was also Schedule IV in Australia and requires a prescription also but I have not seen any information on the internet about this, and information I've read on an Australian nootropics selling site says Aniracetam IS legal in Australia. Any thoughts on this one, in addition to the other questions above?

Thanks.

[Bread Filter]

All the info I have read says that Aniracetam is perfectly legal in Australia. One of the major brains on Bluelight reminds us of this all the time when someone asks about the legality of Piracetam.

Make sure you cycle off them when you cease usage if you do decide to use the racetams. I got nasty Serotonin Syndrome when my Piracetam went "missing" and I had to go cold turkey. I had only been on it for two weeks.

[PhoenixSon]

buy it, wait for it, recieve it.

Never heard about serotonin syndrome from not tapering off piracetam or the other racetams.

[qualia]

i've never had a piracetam go missing ordering it from o/s

you can buy aniracetam in oz, btw

http://www.suppshop.com.au/supplements/nootropics/Aniracetam%20100

[Thelema]

The only reason Piracetam went S4 was to harmonise with NZ legislation in the first place.

I wrote to the NDPSC at that time reminding them that under law they were obliged to consider each scheduling of subtance clearly under 52E guidelines, but this seems not to have happened in the trans-tasman harmonisation agreement.

The result is, if you ever imported piracetam, you'll proabably never, ever get busted for it. It's not on the customs list.

The only way you would get busted is if you were selling it in OZ, and even then you'd have a case.