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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I have a cupboard full of paracetamol...well no......I have quite a few packs...maybe 20.
It gets me, that governments think we are all like five year olds...not to be trusted.
I am surprised we can buy matches and other potentially dangerous items.
If anyone really wanted to do themselves in using paracetamol........one single pack of 16 might just do the job.
In my nursing career I saw people(girls mainly = tiff with B/f = end it all) who took a relatively small amount of this drug ...one girl took only 11 and it killed her...not right away......but weeks and weeks later. She hadn't wanted to die, not really....she just wanted someone to notice she was hurting psychologically...but die she did.
Legislation is not the answer, taxation is not the answer.......education might have a role, but it is only a secondary one.
Young people think their lives are endless and they have become so hedonistic.......want it now, no boundaries...no alcohol, means to them, no fun.
They do not see the health risks.......or if they do, they do not take them seriously.
Maybe a National Service type enterprise might alter their views, because instead of putting them in the Army, they could be working on hospital wards, in A&E departments......no, not nursing patients, but doing other things that expose them to the sights that perhaps would alter their views on drugs and alcohol.
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I work with young people and I think this is a very good idea (I also think the reintroduction of national service would be fantastic) from my experience putting up the price of alcohol by fifty or sixty pence will have no effect whatsoever on cutting down alcohol consumption in young people, although it will increase pub prices and will probably lead to further demises in local pubs.