Does restricting pack size of paracetamol (acetaminophen) reduce suicides?
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2007-04-03
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Buckley, Nicholas
Gunnell, David
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Public Library of Science
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Public health interventions are
usually implemented without
any attempt to prospectively
evaluate them with an experimental
research design. Thus the only
way to evaluate the outcome of
the intervention is to describe
what happened before and after
its implementation. In a new study
published in PLoS Medicine, Morgan
et al. have examined the change in
deaths attributed to paracetamol
(acetaminophen) poisoning in
England and Wales in the six years
before and after a legislated reduction
in the maximum pack size [1].
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Keywords: acetylsalicylic acid; antidepressant agent; paracetamol; serotonin uptake inhibitor; acetylsalicylic acid; antidepressant agent; paracetamol; catalysis; drug dose regimen; drug intoxication; drug overdose; drug packaging; fatality; health care; human; med
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PLoS Medicine 4.4 (2007): e152
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