United Kingdom legislation on pack sizes of analgesics: background, rationale, and effects on suicide and deliberate self-harm.

Following increasing concern in the UK about the mortality and morbidity associated with self-poisoning with analgesics, especially paracetamol (Tylenol, acetaminophen), legislation was introduced in 1998 to modify packs sold over-the-counter. The most important change was a reduction in the maximum...

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Autor principal: Hawton, K
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado em: 2002