TV1 carries a story about Count Down restricting the sale of Panadol (paracetamol) on account of a coroner’s recommendation.
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Adolf has been taking Panadol at the recommended rate for 24 hours per day since shoulder surgery on June the 4th. Before surgery, Adolf questioned both the surgeon and his GP on potential risks associated with long term use of this drug.
The answer was unequivocal.
There is no danger when taken continuously at the recommended rate.
But what if I forget I’ve taken them and double dose?
Still quite safe. However, if you double dose for an extended period, eventually you will do serious damage to your liver.
So, on the basis of massive overdosing by a dickhead university political studies student and the recommendation of an hysterical coroner, Count Down will deprive chronic pain sufferers of the one product they need to have on hand at all times.
I use eight tablets per day and there are ninety-six in a packet.
Just as well I don’t live way out in the bush.
No Minister 
You can get an increased supply by prescription. The restriction is just for over the counter.
You could switch to ibuprofen which doesn’t affect the liver as much but can affect the kidneys. No worries, you’ve (presumably) got two kidneys but only one liver 🙂
The young lady committed suicide but to spare the parents the coroner chose to label it “accidental overdose “. Dishonest. No good will come out of the supermarket ‘s action. Fortunately this isn’t government action and you can still buy them by the box elsewhere.
Yes, sorry, I forget to mention in my description below that corporate business – who are the most gutless when it comes to pushing back against Woke and other pressure group nonsense – see a headline like that and quickly implement a virtue-signalling change as potential legal and commercial damage-control limitation. And get a nonsense positive publicity hit out of a headline reporting they are allegedly good public citizens.
Max
Prescription usually is much more expensive than OTC.
Ian
Thank you for the missing context .
Time to overhaul the coroner’s role, IMHO. From what I understand they assess cause of death and then make recommendations about what preventative measures can be taken to minimise and/or eliminate that cause…with no wider consideration as to the real-life practicality, unintended consequences and hidden economic and other costs (which as per Tom Hunter’s iceberg analogy, will contribute to further death!).
And then the media picks it up and throes it into a garish headline, and interventionist politicians come riding to the rescue with often cumbersome and costly bureaucracy and regulations to save one in a million from repeating the same tragic stupidity.
Like, say, Chris Carter mandating the micro chipping of all dogs – including chihuahuas! – after a nasty dog attack on an unfortunate kid in a public park. Did nothing of value to solve the problem, but Carter got the vote of idiots who saw the headline and were given false assurance the gummit was doing something.
And that’s how much bad policy gets made! 😳