{"id":633644,"date":"2026-04-27T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/633644\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T07:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:49:09","slug":"cost-of-living-squeeze-forces-some-to-cut-back-on-buying-over-the-counter-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/633644\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost-of-living squeeze forces some to cut back on buying over-the-counter medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Research shows price is now a \u2018central factor\u2019 in decisions, with 36pc of customers saying it has stopped them buying a treatment they needed\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Generic medicines can be up to 25pc cheaper than branded alternatives. Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e69e674e-f048-4573-80d3-3732a589ddbd.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Generic medicines can be up to 25pc cheaper than branded alternatives. Stock image<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">More than one in three people say the price of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines has stopped them from buying a treatment they needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Financial worries have left some people cutting back on common medicines such as painkillers, hay fever and gastrointestinal treatments, Am\u00e1rach research reveals today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Research shows price is now a \u2018central factor\u2019 in decisions, with 36pc of customers saying it has stopped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,70919,137,490],"class_list":{"0":"post-633644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-eilish-oregan","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}