Increase the age limit for purchasing analgesics and only allow sales via a chemist
- Target:
- 10 downing street
- Region:
- United Kingdom
Millions of people children and adults are allowed to buy analgesics too freely over the counter encouraging overdose and suicide.
Children as young as 14 are being allowed to buy 2 packs at a time over and over, at self service tills. Mainline tills prompt you to not sell more than 2 packs. The law needs to change as paracetamol alone can damage your liver with as little as 24 tablets.
We, the undersigned, call on the UK to eliminate the sale of more than 1 box of analgesics and they should be authorized at each attempt to purchase just like if purchasing cigarettes or alcohol.
Stop supermarkets selling these harmful tablets to as young as 12. We need to reduce the risk of overdose and death.
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