As kids' accidental ODs rise, FDA still won't mandate flow restrictors in medicine bottles

Flow restrictors would be helpful, but wouldn’t it be even more helpful to stop putting acetaminophen into every medicine? They claim it’s in cold medicine to help your fever, but its main purpose is to stop people from abusing cold medicine with the threat of killing your liver. They basically add a small dose of poison to stop people from using medicine recreationally. I’d much rather see people get high on DXM or codeine than die of liver failure because they took too much acetaminophen.

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