I wish they would ban the codeine boosted Tylenol for this reason. People will take more than prescribed at once because the codeine really knocks the edge off, but they forget about the overdose of Tylenol. If they need codeine, just prescribe that and let patients supplement with reasonable doses of NSAIDS.
Or, they'll take normal Tylenol alongside a number of other products that unbeknownst to them also contain Tylenol, like NyQuil, and overdose that way despite taking a normal dose of each medicine individually.
What should be banned IMO are products which combine acetaminophen/Tylenol with something else.
I don't think I believe that. Firstly, in order for that strategy to be effective, Tylenol's deadliness would have to be widely known, which I don't think it is. Secondly, the "punishment" is that you kill someone.
I agree it sounds strange to use Tylenol like that, but the part about adding something that causes fatal poisoning to spite people who might use it as a vice... that's what denatured alcohol is.
We'd rather make something poisonous than miss out on taxes
That's the strategy used by prohibition-era denatured alcohol manufacturers who spiked their product with methanol and other toxic additives. Instead of stopping people from using it as surrogate alcohol, it lead to dozens of deaths
