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   Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 03:39:04 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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   @gsuberland @artemist @nota I like my massive bottles of ibuprofen, they make it easy to avoid running out.

   Got rid of the big bottle of acetaminophen/paracetamol though.

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     Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 03:39:05 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     @artemist @nota jeez, no wonder y'all have so many problems with drug toxicity. (and I say this as someone with mild ototoxic side effects from all the NSAIDs I have to chug to deal with ankylosing spondylitis)

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     artemist (artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 03:39:06 JST artemist

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     @gsuberland @nota A bottle of 500 200mg pills is around 7USD here. I guess it's a per-country thing, I saw 5-10x that in Germany

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     Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 03:39:07 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     @artemist @nota fwiw a pack of 14 200mg ibuprofen tablets costs 30p here, and I can buy them from any supermarket. same for paracetamol and aspirin.

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     artemist (artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 03:39:09 JST artemist

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     @nota i don't love the massive cost difference, but it's not like the us has particularly cheap medication (i often find ibuprofen in europe several times as expensive as in the us)

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     artemist (artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 03:39:11 JST artemist

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     @nota yeah but removing pills from blister packs can make your fingers sore so it's impossible to say whether they're good or not

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     nota (nota@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 03:39:13 JST nota

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     @artemist For the record, because people always underestimate it, we're not talking about small effect sizes here:

     It's almost universally a ~40% drop in all overdose related metrics, which translates to a ~30% drop in unintentional poisonings of any kind. UK reported a ~60% drop in overdose related liver transplants from mandating blister packs. 65% more effective in preventing child access to medication than "child resistant" pill bottles.

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     nota (nota@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 03:39:14 JST nota

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     @artemist easy solution, they should finally just mandate blister packs for most medication. It's embarrassing that it hasn't been done yet considering the overwhelming scientific evidence.

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     artemist (artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 03:39:16 JST artemist

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     @nota in the US the pharmacist generally puts medicine into their own bottles and then sticks a label on, and they can't be bothered to actually emboss the label because of course not

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     nota (nota@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 03:39:17 JST nota

     TIL the braille writing on medical product packaging is not universal??? apparently the US doesn't have it?