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Originally Posted by danielf
The reasoning behind this is that many suicides are spur of the moment decisions. Very few people go out to buy pain killers with a view to committing suicide. It's having them in the house in sufficient quantities at a vulnerable time that can push people over the edge. Limiting the amount you can buy at one time is supposed to decrease the stock people normally keep. Not to prevent planned suicides (the minority), but to prevent suicides that happen because the means just happen to be there.
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Well I understand the thinking but I still think it was a ploy for the pharmaceuticals to charge over the odds for the product.In one fell swoop they trebled the price overnight by getting that law passed. I used to save sooo much by buying Paracetamol a 100 at a time.Those bubble strips are so wasteful with all the packaging too.hardly environmentally friendly.
I'm so sick of this nannyfied country..I'm not allowed to think for myself or to run my life the way I like..because I might just 'hurt' myself.
Anyway I think panic buying in this case might be laid squarely at the governments feet this time.They appointed the agency that oversees the gritting and salting whom the AA say have allowed the levels to lag drastically
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8450176.stm
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AA spokesman Paul Watters told the BBC said councils had reduced stocks by 250,000 tonnes during the past 10 years.
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No one would need to panic buy if there were buses running and they could drive out from their housing estates.Instead we are having to take perilous walks on frozen compacted ice at the risk of broken limbs to get to our nearest shops which for many of us are the centralised high street.All the corner shops have disappeared around here(mine is now a frigging craft and wool shop and so useless in this present crisis).