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I share this sentiment. Not knowing that "Tylenol" is Paracetamol I assumed it had to be some heavy, special, US-only painkiller, like those opioids which killed so many.

I have a box of this in my drawer - it's 20 pills totalling 10g - that's enough to damage a healthy liver if taken in the span of 24h.

I can't imagine the pain this man must have been going through to do this and mind you, I had kidney stones.




Not sure what he took...

Some versions of Tylenol have codeine in them as well. I got some stronger ones (Tylenol 3) after oral surgery and I had a few pills left and when a few months later my back was acting up and I was eyeing those pills I immediately flushed them down the toilet because I don't want to get addicted to that shit.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codeine/paracetamol here.


Please don't flush drugs down the toilet! If they are on the flush list (https://www.fda.gov/drugs/disposal-unused-medicines-what-you...) that may be ok, but in general bring them to a drug take back site. (Of course, when you are really at risk of addiction, there might be no choice...)

See also: https://blog.epa.gov/2016/04/29/dont-flush-why-your-drug-dis...




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