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Should DayQuil Be Legal?
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#202I go with Alka Seltzer specifically because they have an Aspirin variant instead of Acetaminophen.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Dude, chill out. Everything has a fatal dose, you can literally look up the LD50 and find that it’s a big number. Nobody is coming for your weed.
I think the thing is that there is no official accepted value of LD50 for THC since there has never been a recorded death from THC:
> The median lethal dose (LD50) of THC has been determined in various animal species through oral administration and ranges from 800 to 9000 mg/kg. In humans, there have been no recorded instances of fatal overdoses resulting from acute THC use. However, estimates for a potentially lethal human dose range from 4 to 15 g.
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#204I just can't get super upset about this. Sure, OTC companies are duping customers with marketing, but what's new about that? As the person holding the money, it's my job to look at what is effective and what the active ingredients are in any given product. Or ask my doctor/nurse/pharmacist what to do, if I can't be bothered to make the effort myself. When I want to get irrationally angry about something in a departme…
If someone buys an overpriced shampoo, it only negatively affects them, but the are costs to overall society if people suffer health issues, addiction, etc.
In the past, a lot of people unknowingly ended up addicted to morphine, as it turned out both companies and individual doctors were happy to mislead them about the contents of medication.
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#205The article kinda glossed over it, but one fact under-appreciated by the general public is just how dangerous acetaminophen overdoses can be . Scientists often talk about the "therapeutic index" or "safety ratio" of a drug. It's the LD50 (dose at which 50% of recipients die) divided by the effective dose. Common hard drugs like heroin or methamphetamine have a safety ratio of about 6-10 [1]. "Soft" drugs like marijua…
Therapeutic index of fentanyl is much higher than heroin or morphine, but I don’t think people really think that it makes it safer.
The folks I know who've been prescribed fentanyl weren't particularly upset about it. It is very potent, and thus measuring the dose properly is very important, but it's not particularly fussy beyond that.
The people you know may be obtaining it from less reliable apothecaries; that can be a real issue.
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#206I am still bothered that Australia limited the sale of small quantities of codeine in 2018. I had not realized it limited acetaminophen last year to limits similar to the UK.
At least in the States I can still economise.
On the record, I am 100% for making common painkillers, cold and flu remedies completely over the counter. It blows my mind people are making things that used to be prescription (for good reason) OTC, but limiting purchases for things like acetaminophen. I still find it burdensome to deal with the pseudoephedrine controls, and I don't even use it often.
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed. I like beer quite a lot and have for a very long time, so acetaminophen is banned from my medicine cabinet.
Seems like the logical thing to ban from your stomach for the time periods you need acetaminophen is the beer, unless I'm missing something.
No.
Even in the absence of beer, I'm not choosing acetaminophen. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.
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#208DayQuil: Because you're sick, and the rest of the office should be too.
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#209I just can't get super upset about this. Sure, OTC companies are duping customers with marketing, but what's new about that? As the person holding the money, it's my job to look at what is effective and what the active ingredients are in any given product. Or ask my doctor/nurse/pharmacist what to do, if I can't be bothered to make the effort myself. When I want to get irrationally angry about something in a departme…
That shampoo opinion is a sure tell that you're not a woman with long hair (men with long hair tend to be less picky). My hair behaves noticeably differently with different shampoos/conditioners even within the same brand, and depending on your specific porosity, oiliness, texture, and humidity of the local climate, different hair care products and routines make a big difference if you have hair past chin length and want it to look healthy.
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#210"Yes, legalize all drugs for adults"
Simple