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Re:179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown by caf on Friday September 25, 2020 @02:55AM (#24587237)
I suspect if paracetamol was newly brought to market today it would in fact be prescription.

On the other hand diclofenac is over-the-counter in Australia.

Re:179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown by kortex on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:07AM (#24589845)
100%. With a drawn-out phase 3 and oodles of black-box warnings to boot.

And why is there so much credulity in this thread? In fact why isn't paracetamol's toxicity more well known? My mom is a nurse and I have an undergrad in chemistry and it wasn't till college senior year in a pharmacochem elective that I learned how narrow the therapeutic range is, and how alcohol shrinks it further to the point where accidentally nerfing your liver with booze and dayquil is plausible.

Re:179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown by bouncycastle on Friday September 25, 2020 @08:10AM (#24588903)
come on guys, really? You can even overdose with water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
Re:179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown by BoiledCabbage on Friday September 25, 2020 @08:27AM (#24588978)
Are you not familiar with paracetamol?

To post this and compare it to water overdose seem to be the only reason I can think of.

Re:179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown by bouncycastle on Sunday October 04, 2020 @04:10AM (#24677248)
I've mentioned water because it is something that you wouldn't expect.

Probably alcohol would be another item that's easily available, and not many consider as dangerously lethal when overdosed.

On the other hand, I think there's still a lot of common sense left with paracetamol and other medicine.

Re:179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown by rsynnott on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:20AM (#24590017)
Paracetamol has the nasty feature that the therapeutic dose is quite close to the lethal dose; water does not.