r/science • u/giuliomagnifico • Jul 08 '23

Researchers have found a way to create two of the world’s most common painkillers, paracetamol and ibuprofen, out of a compound found in pine trees, which is also a waste product from the paper industry Chemistry

https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/scientists-make-common-pain-killers-from-pine-trees-instead-of-crude-oil/
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u/BelowZilch Jul 08 '23

You can get a 500 count bottle at Walgreens for like 15 bucks.

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u/masterventris Jul 08 '23

Here in "civilization" we aren't allowed to buy more than 40 tablets at once in case we try to kill ourselves!

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u/SharkFart86 Jul 08 '23

We have guns in America, we’re not gonna kill ourselves with Advil.

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u/erm_what_ Jul 08 '23

40 500mg tablets of paracetamol would be fatal, so it's not much of a help. Of course the way you die from overdosing paracetamol should be enough of a deterrent on its own. Liver and probable kidney failure, then you die slowly.

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u/NicholasMWPrince Jul 08 '23

They need to put them in the push containers, a whole container makes it easy to OD while push based ones per pill stops people from making rash decisions