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Article: Smaller Packets Help Reduce Incidence Of Analgesic Overdose In U.K.(prevention of paracetmol (acetaminophen) poisoning by reducing the number of pills in a package)
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- Drug Week
- Article date:
- June 15, 2001
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2001 JUN 15 - (NewsRx Network) -- The number of deaths from self-poisoning with paracetamol and salicylates has decreased significantly since legislation limiting the number of tablets per pack was introduced in the United Kingdom in 1998, according to a report in the British Medical Journal.
Data, including drug-related deaths, cases of liver poisoning, numbers of liver transplantations, and sales data, were used to assess the impact of the legislation.
Professor of psychiatry, Keith Hawton, at Wameford Hospital in Oxford, U.K., and colleagues found the number of tablets in packets of paracetamol and salicylate preparations decreased markedly in the 12 ...