• Piers@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s because people try to kill themselves by taking lots of ibuprofen and it’s both a bad way to go and a bad way to survive. Making it harder to access large amounts has been shown to reduce the amount of suicide attempts (as often actual attempts are somewhat impulsive.)

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      1 year ago

      well sure, lots of people commit suicide by hanging themself but that doesn’t stop us planting trees or building bridges, i consider the uk way to be overly cautious, for the majority of people ibuprofen is not a problem and i think it’s frustrating to just get little amounts

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        1 year ago

        I do t understand why you’d need easy access to buy 500 at a time of something you shouldn’t take more than 8 a day or for more than three days at a time without consulting a Dr and now I just realised what this is about…

        In the UK we just see the Dr if we’re in pain for more than three days because our system isn’t evil.

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          ? because you always need ibuprofen for something, it’s cheaper to buy in bulk, and it’s more conveneint to have it laying around already than having to go and get some when you need it already