It's the common painkiller that's as easy to buy as a loaf of bread in any supermarket.
But paracetamol continues to be the most common cause of accidental and deliberate poisonings every year.
If taken as recommended it is safe and effective, but high levels can damage the liver. The 2009 report of the National Poison's Information Centre in Beaumont Hospital found paracetamol was used in 1,376 cases and it topped the overdose list previously in 2008.
Due to concerns over the painkiller being an agent in so many poisonings a year, justified controls on the sale of the drug were introduced in 2001.
Source: Eilish O'Regan, The Irish Independent, 27/09/2010
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