Panic in Greek pharmacies as hundreds of medicines run short
Source: Guardian
Greece is facing a serious shortage of medicines amid claims that pharmaceutical multinationals have halted shipments to the country because of the economic crisis and concerns that the drugs will be exported by middlemen because prices are higher in other European countries.
Hundreds of drugs are in short supply and the situation is getting worse, according to the Greek drug regulator. The government has drawn up a list of more than 50 pharmaceutical companies it accuses of halting or planning to halt supplies because of low prices in the country.
More than 200 medicinal products are affected, including treatments for arthritis, hepatitis C and hypertension, cholesterol-lowering agents, antipsychotics, antibiotics, anaesthetics and immunomodulators used to treat bowel disease.
Separately, it was announced on Tuesday that the Swiss Red Cross was slashing its supply of donor blood to Greece because it had not paid its bills on time.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/27/greece-blames-drug-companies-shortages
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That tends to lend credence to the stories I used to hear about the Red Cross selling bread in New Orleans after Hurricane Betsy in 1965. 
...but it is most likely close to reality for us all.
I have a plan to hopefully get off most of my meds by the end of the year, just because I fear something like this happening.
Dietarily, I also plan on getting my family used to living with meat as a special addition, rather than an every meal sort of thing...again, just because I feel the 'austerity' is gonna hit us ALL in some way...
...whole, rotten, edifice.
The paradigm-shift we are inexorably headed toward will shake things down to their essence.
- It's the only way we'll ever become free.
