{"id":28678,"date":"2018-01-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/cosi-is-sticking-by-his-controversial-fb-post-despite-backlash\/"},"modified":"2018-01-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T00:00:00","slug":"cosi-is-sticking-by-his-controversial-fb-post-despite-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/cosi-is-sticking-by-his-controversial-fb-post-despite-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosi Is Sticking By His Controversial FB Post Despite Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Andrew \u2018Cosi\u2019 Costello reckons Australia\u2019s codeine ban is bad news for GP waiting rooms.<\/h3>\n<p>Cosi copped some online backlash after revealing online that he was \u201cstocking up\u201d ahead of Australia\u2019s over the counter codeine ban.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cWhen I say stocking up, I mean half a dozen boxes from a couple of different pharmacies,\u201d Cosi told FIVEAA on Wednesday. \u201cMy missus, she gets a problem with her wisdom tooth. It flares up once every six weeks or so for a couple of days &#8212; she takes these tablets and it goes away.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI don\u2019t want to further burden our medical system here in Australia by further calling the GP, sitting in GP rooms waiting and waiting. The problems it\u2019s going to cause for people who genuinely need this stuff is just going to be ginormous.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIf I want a codeine product I don\u2019t want to take the spot in waiting room over someone else that\u2019s got a really genuine full on enquiry.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIVEAABreakfast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FIVEAABreakfast<\/a> podcast with David &amp; Will:<br><br>iTunes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NmIb1ouVbB\">https:\/\/t.co\/NmIb1ouVbB<\/a><br>Online <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JJR4gqVj4b\">https:\/\/t.co\/JJR4gqVj4b<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wMZoTA66W8\">pic.twitter.com\/wMZoTA66W8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FIVEAA (@1395FIVEAA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1395FIVEAA\/status\/958478684175794177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#13;\n&#13;\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCosiCostello%2Fposts%2F1682614705130982&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"681\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew \u2018Cosi\u2019 Costello reckons Australia\u2019s codeine ban is bad news for GP waiting rooms. Cosi copped some online backlash after revealing online that he was \u201cstocking up\u201d ahead of Australia\u2019s over the counter codeine ban. \u201cWhen I say stocking up, I mean half a dozen boxes from a couple of different pharmacies,\u201d Cosi told FIVEAA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-28678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cosi Is Sticking By His Controversial FB Post Despite Backlash - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/cosi-is-sticking-by-his-controversial-fb-post-despite-backlash\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cosi Is Sticking By His Controversial FB Post Despite Backlash\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Andrew \u2018Cosi\u2019 Costello reckons Australia\u2019s codeine ban is bad news for GP waiting rooms. 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