Acetaminophen crisis bigger than opioid epidemic?

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Servetus

Acetaminophen, the main active ingredient in certain non-NSAID pain medications, available to adults and children without a prescription in neighborhood stores throughout the United States, is suspected by Ohio University researchers of causing its users to experience an acute psychological reaction: to lose positive empathy during the time they medicate with the drug. That would make acetaminophen the yin to MDMA’s yang.

It might also be an instigator of many social and international problems. A quarter of all US adults consume a drug containing acetaminophen every week.

In a time when scientific research is making great strides in understanding the biological origins of emotions and behavior, the emergence of strange scientific phenomena is guaranteed to offset various presumptions and the industries or governments that thrive upon them. Some call it creative destruction. Others have more derogatory names.

How the US government and the news media handles the acetaminophen revelations will reveal much about their respective priorities and whose side they’re on when it comes to drug enforcement. This should be interesting.

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22 Responses to Acetaminophen crisis bigger than opioid epidemic?

  1. primus says:
    April 8, 2019 at 11:50 pm

    Off Topic, sorry; what has happened to Media Awareness Program (MAP)? It appears to have stopped updating mid December last year, at least on the cannabis list.

    • DdC says:
      April 9, 2019 at 4:06 pm

      IDK Primus. I think MAPS was run by Richard Lake who died a while ago. DPA sponsored it and was run by Ethan Nadelmann with Soros donations. He retired and maybe there are enough drug war websites to get info? MM and CN and CC to All these.

      • DdC says:
        April 10, 2019 at 6:47 am

        That should be…

        MapInc Media Awareness Project not
        MAPS Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

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      • allan says:
        April 14, 2019 at 11:02 am

        The late Richard Lake was chief editor at MAP.

        It was not run by Ethan Nadelman. Matt Elrod and Mark Greer have always been it’s top dogs.

        MAP, it’s DrugNews archive and it’s writers’ group was a collective, almost entirely volunteer effort.

  3. NCN says:
    April 9, 2019 at 12:42 pm

    The proper place for acetaminophen is the garbage can. Read the label and toss in trash. Other than a small, potential placebo effect, the stuff is worthless crap.

    If it actually offered some pain relief I wouldn’t be worried about a lack of empathy. One puff of weed is a better analgesic and you don’t have to wait an hour..

    OTOH, it’s an awesome deterrent to swallowing a handful of Vicodin a few times a day. Get high on the opiate while the acetaminophen rots your liver? No thanks. It’s not a pain pill but rather a poison placed in the pathway of thrill seekers and drug abusers.

    Worthless fucking crap.

    On the social implications, I suspect the prohibitionist clan could give a shit about empathy and probably will cheer this study if it filters into their world.

  4. kaptinemo says:
    April 10, 2019 at 7:06 am

    OTOH, it’s an awesome deterrent to swallowing a handful of Vicodin a few times a day. Get high on the opiate while the acetaminophen rots your liver?

    I concur; the acetaminophen mixed with pharmas serves the same purpose as methanol did during alcohol Prohibition, to deliberately poison illegal alcohol imbibers, indirectly doing what the prohibs back then wanted very much to do directly: kill those who went against their (faux) moral dictates.

    That same evil streak is in the modern-day versions of prohibs; it is a hallmark of the breed.

  5. Chuck Pergiel says:
    April 10, 2019 at 8:42 pm

    Which drug kills more people, Tylenol or Oxycontin?
    Do other pain killers also reduce empathy? Seems like a logical extension of this study.

    • DdC says:
      April 10, 2019 at 9:28 pm

      Cannabis is one of the least toxic substances
      in the whole pharmacopoeia
      ~ Prof. Lester Grinspoon

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      Cannabis is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms. And it is extraordinarily safe – safer than most medicines prescribed every day. If marijuana were a new discovery rather than a well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder drug. ~ Prof. Lester Grinspoon

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      Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could replace if it were legally available. Despite its use by millions of people over thousands of years, cannabis has never caused an overdose death.
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      Drug Worriers preferred methods of treatment…
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      “Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.”
      ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.

    • darkcycle says:
      April 11, 2019 at 12:36 pm

      Actually, oxycodone is very safe, and generally won’t cause respiratory depression unless mixed with other drugs that can cause potentiation. On it’s own, it’s very safe….like heroin. Almost all heroin overdoses are caused by drug interactions, not heroin on it’s own. Oxicodone’s therapeutic index is pretty high.

  6. Thinking Clearly says:
    April 10, 2019 at 9:20 pm

    No statistics I could find for oxycodone deaths that were not amalgamated with other semi synthetic opiates statistics (like fentanyl).

    450 deaths yearly from acetaminophen. 100 of then accidental.

  7. DdC says:
    April 13, 2019 at 12:20 pm

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    May 30, 2019 at 5:40 pm

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    • NorCalNative says:
      May 31, 2019 at 7:20 pm

      The ones I use are medicinal and fun. Fuck off with your simple-minded bullshit. Organized religion causes way more harm to humanity.

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  10. Sudon't says:
    June 11, 2019 at 7:54 am

    Tylenol doesn’t get you high and so, like with the antibiotics crisis, the government won’t be interested in it. The problem we have with antibiotic misuse is what the DEA ought to be kicking down doors over.

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