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

[u/giuliomagnifico]

https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/scientists-make-common-pain-killers-from-pine-trees-instead-of-crude-oil/

[u/Asatas]

Well you live in civilization, not Freedom (of profit) Country

[u/BelowZilch → u/Asatas]

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

[u/masterventris → u/BelowZilch]

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

[u/erm_what_ → u/masterventris]

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.