Every year, overdoses of medicines containing acetaminophen send more than 78,000 people to emergency rooms. One third of those emergencies happened by accident, according to a Consumer Products Safety Commission study. An estimated 150 people die each year from accidental acetaminophen overdoses, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s more than the number who die from intentional overdoses of acetaminophen to commit suicide.
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Committing suicide with Tylenol is a thankless task. Watched a man who downed hundreds and a six of beer die, back in 76. Trashes the liver, a long nasty way to die.
These days intentional overdoes are treated with a medication discovered to block the liver killing properties of a Tylenol OD. So that is why more accidentals die. They are already in failure when identified.
One of my sisters did medical transcription. Apparently, this is a serious problem.