Acetaminophen I believe is the English NHS’s preferred pain medication.
They call it paracetamol.
Acetaminophen is a perfectly good drug and effective if taken correctly. In high dosages outside of prescribed dosages it will kill your liver and thus yourself on long term use. If one takes a massive dose one time (many grams) it will kill your liver and you will die. It is all that simple.
The real tragedy is Tylenol advertised it products as safe and effective for years and it is. Many young people took overdoses as a plea for attention from family not realizing it was a fatal overdose, as they thought it was safe. It is not safe in high doses. They died a most unpleasant death. Their liver died, they turned yellow of skin and incoherent of logic, with high ammonia blood levels,and died as their blood chemistry would no longer support life.
It often comes with codeine over the counter or did in the 80s
8mg codeine and 500mg Tylenol
Jamaica etc too
Why did they stop using aspirin and oxycodone in percodan
And now Tylenol instead in Percocet
Aspirin far better synergistic efficacy
A large man will likely have liver emergency or Tylenol toxicity from Tylenol in huge doses from too many percocets in a day than the opiate itself
I could easily survive 250mg of oxycodone over 24 hours at 240 pounds and mild acclimation
I’ve taken 160mg after open heart and sternal resection which ain’t for sissies
A procedure more than usual open heart
25 percs is 12,500 mg of Tylenol which is 1.7 times toxic dose benchmark
Our govt so screws up pain meds for an aging pop
They were not in our kool aid when I was young except for recreational drugs
They couch it in good intentions but it’s all about the cash flow to the states to enforce it
Aspirin is prohibited (by policy) in Canada.
Acetaminophen is tylenol.