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TyrconnellFL t1_ixzvdl2 wrote

Reply to comment by ShalmaneserIII in ELI5: If allergies, and especially anaphylaxis, are so common, why do we still need prescriptions for epi pens and such? by boomokasharoomo

If it were brought to market today, Tylenol wouldn’t be over the counter. I’m not sure it would get approval at all with its horrible overdose toxicity.

But the same is even more true for alcohol, and yet that ship has sailed. Actually it sailed thousands of years before the invention of ships.

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