Seventy two year old man stopped from buying alcohol

Originally Posted by Enuff

Because you can walk out of that store into another and buy two more packs, then out of that store into another etc etc...

Yeah, but surely that's a liability thing more than anything. No store wants some mad lawsuit against them for being the supplier of drugs that someone used to top themselves. Aside from that, I suppose it makes it at the very least, that bit more difficult for someone in that frame of mind. Slightest chance it might put them off too I suppose.

I know the no more than 32 Paracetamol rule was brought in to stop suicides from overdosing and apparently it's supposed to have worked(apparently a suicide can't work out the go to another shop trick) but I reckon the real winners were the pharmaceutical companies.

It began to cost double the price to buy the blister packs in packs of 32 or less.When I could buy 100 at a time it was so much cheaper.

[danielf]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

I know the no more than 32 Paracetamol rule was brought in to stop suicides from overdosing and apparently it's supposed to have worked(apparently a suicide can't work out the go to another shop trick) but I reckon the real winners were the pharmaceutical companies.

It began to cost double the price to buy the blister packs in packs of 32 or less.When I could buy 100 at a time it was so much cheaper.

The reason is that many suicides are 'spur of the moment' decisions made when the opportunity is there. They don't tend to be planned. So if you happen to have 50 paracetamol in the house, you might take it. If you don't then you don't. Few people would actually go out and buy paracetamol in order to commit suicide. The 32 paracetamol rule reduces the number people tend to have in the house (because people tend to not go to another shop/go back into the shop).

Good points but:

Originally Posted by danielf

They don't tend to be planned

I'm pretty sure I learned that suicides in adults tend to be considerably pre-meditated & quite well planned.

I wonder what the person on the checkout would ask if I bought 32 Paracetamol and 2 large bottles of whiskey or other spirits? Because i'm sure that'll do the job.

[danielf]

Originally Posted by kryogenik

Good points but:



I'm pretty sure I learned that suicides in adults tend to be considerably pre-meditated & quite well planned.

It may well be that there is a difference between adolescents and adults in this (and that what I learned related to adolescents)

Gotchya.