Pain relief tablets limit in Tesco wtf?

[wildone63]

I often purchase tescos own make of extra power pain reliever tablets because they work well on relieving my backache,they were out of stock for a while this year but when they returned to the shelves recentley i tried to buy 4 packs,but the self serve checkout wouldnt let me purchase more than 2 packs,the assistant said it was something to do with 'government rules' or some such bks like that.
wtf is going on?

[boxst]

It's been like that for a very long time. It is a bit pointless as of course, you can just scan and pay and then do it all again 36 seconds later ...

[Pints]

Nothing new. Limits on most things like that, even Paracetamol.

[Piersman2]

It's to stop you buying enough tablets to go home and top yourself.

I buy my paracetamol and Ibuprofen from Costco in trade packs. Get about 40 packs of 16 pills for about a fiver.

[mrmr96]

Piersman2 said:

It's to stop you buying enough tablets to go home and top yourself.

I buy my paracetamol and Ibuprofen from Costco in trade packs. Get about 40 packs of 16 pills for about a fiver.

Are costco still doing those? Local branch told me they stopped.

[mybrainhurts]

mrmr96 said:

Piersman2 said:

It's to stop you buying enough tablets to go home and top yourself.

I buy my paracetamol and Ibuprofen from Costco in trade packs. Get about 40 packs of 16 pills for about a fiver.

Are costco still doing those? Local branch told me they stopped.

Makro confiscated my purchase years ago.

[wildone63]

boxst said:

It's been like that for a very long time. It is a bit pointless as of course, you can just scan and pay and then do it all again 36 seconds later ...

Yes,i had that earth shattering brainwave at the checkout,who would have thought of doing that eh?
I pointed that out to the assistant and she said 'yes you can do that but iam not supposed to tell you about it'
What next will the nanny state be forcing upon us? Will my local car accesory shop not allow me to buy more than a teaspoon full of anti-freeze in one go in case i go away and drink it?

[Countdown]

boxst said:

It's been like that for a very long time. It is a bit pointless as of course, you can just scan and pay and then do it all again 36 seconds later ...

At the Asda self-serve it will ask for authorisation even if you buy a single pack. Very annoying

[otolith]

Blair government I think.

Would be interesting to know whether it has made any difference.

[wildone63]

Countdown said:

At the Asda self-serve it will ask for authorisation even if you buy a single pack. Very annoying

So does it mean that if the checkout assistant authorises the purchase that they have evaluated your mental state and decided that youre not a suicide risk?

[Flibble]

otolith said:

Blair government I think.

Would be interesting to know whether it has made any difference.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1330691/Lim...
Old article, but it suggests it helped. Having to do a couple of purchases, then pop all the pills out of the blister packs definitely makes any overdose a bit more deliberate compared to just necking 100 pills from a bottle.

[otolith]

Fewer paracetamol deaths - but did they just hang themselves instead?

[Impasse]

otolith said:

Fewer paracetamol deaths - but did they just hang themselves instead?

Doubtful. The mindset between peacefully ingesting tablets with a bottle of your favourite juice and planning a somewhat violent and immediately physically painful action, is vast.

[mph1977]

A number of years ago paracetamol was actually reclassified as a Prescription Only Medicne , due in part to the narrow gap between therapuetic and toxic doses. Fatalities have been noted in suspectible adults after single ingestiosnof little as 10 g .

However, as a caveat to that there were two exemptions put in place

allowing the sale of up to 32 tablets as a general sales list medication ( and there is also an exemption for bona fide traders to purchase in bulk)

and allowing a none prescriber pharamcist to sell you up to 100 tablets

a Pharamcist Independent prescriber can sell you more by issuing and then dispensing against a Private prescription for more , a Nurse or Medicla practitioner could issue a private prevateor NHS prescription for more as can General dental Practitioners ( as paracaetamol is one of the drugs they can prescribe in community settings - as opposed to prescribing most things if engaged in hospital practice and beign able to possess and adminster a wider range of drugs for contemporaneous use.)

[cold thursday]

Impasse said:

Doubtful. The mindset between peacefully ingesting tablets with a bottle of your favourite juice and planning a somewhat violent and immediately physically painful action, is vast.

No. "peacefully ingesting paracetamol" does not mean you die now ,it means you die about a week later after being revived in the hospital, put into a bed , and then told (in your apologetic state of remorse) sorry there is nothing we can do for you. You will die from liver failure after you have had plenty of time to tell everyone how sorry you are.
Hanging yourself is much quicker and removes any doubt. It does not need to be painfull or violent.

[mph1977]

cold thursday said:

Impasse said:

Doubtful. The mindset between peacefully ingesting tablets with a bottle of your favourite juice and planning a somewhat violent and immediately physically painful action, is vast.

No. "peacefully ingesting paracetamol" does not mean you die now ,it means you die about a week later after being revived in the hospital, put into a bed , and then told (in your apologetic state of remorse) sorry there is nothing we can do for you. You will die from liver failure after you have had plenty of time to tell everyone how sorry you are.
Hanging yourself is much quicker and removes any doubt. It does not need to be painfull or violent.

try several weeks later in severe pain and discomfort with options becoming increasingly limited becasue of the hepatic failure.

there are many drugs better than Paracvatamol to take to top yourself , but even then there is a strong chance of failure, through vomitting, dose miscalculation discovery by others before the cessation of heartbeat ...


hanging, defenestration from a (significantly ) upper floor or throwing oneself under a train are generally more successful - in ert atmosphere bags as suggested by some of the euthansaia promoters are more effective still ...

[Flibble]

I hear hydrogen sulfide is pretty quick way to go, not too good for anyone else in the vicinity though.

[otolith]

mph1977 said:

try several weeks later in severe pain and discomfort with options becoming increasingly limited becasue of the hepatic failure.

there are many drugs better than Paracvatamol to take to top yourself , but even then there is a strong chance of failure, through vomitting, dose miscalculation discovery by others before the cessation of heartbeat ...


hanging, defenestration from a (significantly ) upper floor or throwing oneself under a train are generally more successful - in ert atmosphere bags as suggested by some of the euthansaia promoters are more effective still ...

That's what I was wondering - whether the number of "fatal by accident overdoses" prevented outweighed the number of "chose something more effective" deaths. Was the overall rate affected?

[BJG1]

otolith said:

That's what I was wondering - whether the number of "fatal by accident overdoses" prevented outweighed the number of "chose something more effective" deaths. Was the overall rate affected?

I don't think there's much evidence to suggest making it harder to kill yourself works - if that were the case the USA would have a much higher rate than us as they all have guns.

[mph1977]

otolith said:

That's what I was wondering - whether the number of "fatal by accident overdoses" prevented outweighed the number of "chose something more effective" deaths. Was the overall rate affected?

Two reasons for the rstrictions on paracetamol.

1. The costs associated with failed / effective but not the immediate result desired paracetamol OD.

2.Reduction of the opportunities for impulsive OD, which is why a lot of places restrict the quantities of Ibuprofen as well. Alrhough Ibuprofen is rather safer in OD unless you manage to have a nassive upper GI bleed.