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> I don't know any country that has a limit on how much alcohol you can buy at a time (most have age restrictions, some have time and place restrictions, some w

> I don't know any country that has a limit on how much alcohol you can buy at a time (most have age restrictions, some have time and place restrictions, some won't sell you if you are already drunk), Similar, but different, the UK does restrict the amount of non-prescription pain killers you can buy. I once tried to buy five packets of Nurofen (Ibuprofen) from a supermarket and was restricted to just two packets. I simply went to the next supermarket up the road and bought two more packets. If there was a limit on how much alcohol people could buy at one time, wouldn't they just do the same thing?

schoen 10y ago
The U.K. really restricts ibuprofen this way? In the U.S. I think these restrictions have been applied only to methamphetamine precursors (pseudoephedrine and maybe others), while opiates have been made prescription-only.
- thefalcon 10y ago
  And in the US you have to present your ID for pseudoephedrine which is presumably getting linked to some database to prevent you from walking down the street to get two more boxes there.
- NTripleOne 10y ago
  OTC analgesics are a common suicide (attempt) method. It's just suicide prevention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmd9HUkOQHk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmd9HUkOQHk