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BBC article following reductions in successful suicides (interestingly it says no reduction in number of overdoses. But we have a pretty good reversal for parac

• DanBC 14y ago
  Yes, but it's very important that anyone with an overdose gets treatment as soon as possible, even if they feel no ill effects at that time. Death from paracetamol overdose is by liver failure, and that takes a week or so to happen, but after the first 24 hours there's not much you can do to prevent it apart from liver transplant. Paracetamol overdose is a small number of liver transplants in the UK, but a significant number of the 'super urgent' transplants.
• coolj 14y ago
  > Despite the reduction in deaths from paracetamol, the study found there had been no decline in overdose cases after 1998. Is the attempted-suicide overdose rate in decline? That seems to be the main question as to whether the law helped.