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Yeah, US bottles seem crazy to me, for drugs where overdose is lethal. I think the theory behind the UK pack size restriction is that suicide attempts are often
by DominikPeters 6y ago
Yeah, US bottles seem crazy to me, for drugs where overdose is lethal. I think the theory behind the UK pack size restriction is that suicide attempts are often spontaneous, so it's life-saving not to have a lethal amount in the house. Also, accidentally popping hundreds of pills out of the blister packaging (rather than a bottle) is pretty unlikely. The restrictions seem to work, with a 40% reduction in paracetamol-related deaths: https://www.nhs.uk/news/medication/smaller-paracetamol-packs-may-have-reduced-deaths/ https://www.nhs.uk/news/medication/smaller-paracetamol-packs...
- fallingfrog 6y agoWhat’s really funny is that if you go to Amsterdam, you can get paracetamol in a quick dissolving pill that works much faster than the really hard ones you get in the states, but it’s in a bubble package and fewer doses so it’s harder to commit suicide with. But in the states you only get the hard pills, which are harder to crush and use to make illicit drugs out of, but in unlimited amounts. So.. we don’t care if you kill yourselves, as long as you don’t have any fun doing it?
- Arubis 6y ago> we don’t care if you kill yourselves, as long as you don’t have any fun doing it? This is actually a good summary. As mentioned in sibling threads, most pharmaceuticals that could potentially be enjoyable are formulated stateside in combination with things that will either make you feel terrible or outright kill you at high enough doses.