1000mg is quite high for a single dose of paracetamol.
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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In the US, that’s the maximum single dose. What is it for your country?
600mg
Just checked my medicine cabinet and my Acetaminophen bottle is 500mg per tablet. Ad. I've definitely taken two before. I might take less now.
(I didn't read the article) Is it the drug or is it the pain the drug is taken to alleviate? If I've got a headache or muscle soreness I'm more likely to focus on that than someones fee-fees.
It's a controlled experiment, not a population study, so the acetaminophen sample weren't in more pain than the control group. But it's a relatively high dose, and while statistically significant the effect seems kind of small. I'm not sure there's really particularly big conclusions you can draw from it.
Acetaminophen [...] blunts physical and social pain by reducing activation in brain areas thought to be related to emotional awareness and motivation.
Is that maybe why there been an uptick of bad people in the last couple of decades.
Acetaminophen doesn't exactly have a long lasting effect. And this is 1/4 of the maximum recommended daily dose administered at once. I think if people were regularly taking enough tylenol that it has a mass societal effect we'd be seeing a lot more liver failures.
Nar, probably the material systems rewarding such behaviors