paracetamol

Opiates are terrifyingly addictive, especially compared to paracetamol, and inhibit your senses and abilities far more than paracetamol.

Paracetamol in overdose is very dangerous, but this drug kills you before the paracetamol does becausethe opiate (opiod?) used is so toxic.

There are pills available with paracetamol + 50mg caffeine (or just take two cups of coffee); this may be more effective than doubling up on the paracetamol.

The irony is that paracetamol overdoses are far harder to treat and far more likely to lead to death or severe long term damage than opioid overdoses...

People do need to be careful to avoid overdose, which means that packets should probably be a bit clearer when they include paracetamol / acetaminophen.

If you take tylenol for pain and also take cough syrup then you could be doubling up on paracetamol.

England changed the way that paracetamol is sold and again there has been a permanent drop in completed suicide.

I seriously don't understand people who take paracetamol and tons of other over the counter stuff for that.

Your use case statement is correct, distinguishing paracetamol from candy should be easy, but is really that a common need or a novelty?

So it is government policy here to consider paracetamol a dangerous, lethal drug.

See for example coproxamol which has a sub-therapeutic dose of paracetamol and dextropropoxyphene.

Agreed, that's why it's better to get paracetamol-free variants of medicines if available.

They'd rather that some people died from paracetamol overdoses than be allowed to live as "sinners".

Couldn't a possible explanation for this be that the "judging" was already done the first time(under the effects of paracetamol) and the brain simply reuses the "cached" judgment?

" "Paracetamol induced sister chromatid exchange in human cells in vivo, and it was aneugenic and induced chromosomal aberrations but not micronuclei in mammalian cells in vivo.

Paracetamol induced sister chromatid exchange and chromosomal aberrations in human cells in vitro.

Paracetamol, both for academics and to pharma, was a non-biosynthesizable molecule.

And even lower again is Paracetamol/Acetaminophen (Tylenol if you're in the US), with the fatal dosage being as low as 3 times the recommended dosage [1].