alt Hacker NewsI had a student once from Sofia (capital and largest city of Bulgaria), she told me her mother mailed her all sort of antibiotics because they were not available here (western Europe) and "what if she'd catch a cold or the flu?" (Both are viruses so antibiotics don't even do anything other than kill the useful bacteria in your body!)
Many of the eastern-european markets around here have a little mini pharmacy where you can buy stuff that's either stronger than what you can find in the US, or can't be found at all. Especially various topicals, they tend to have versions with 2-5% of the active ingredient whereas most of the equivalents I can find in the US are 1%; Obviously nothing that's controlled/scheduled.