I think you could do yourself some serious mischief even with 12 pills. Depends on the drug of course.
I think it’s more about stopping people from taking expired medication since if you’ve just got a huge bottle it’s probably going to sit in the cupboard for years and years. I probably go through 7 or 8 packs of 12 pills a year, again depending on medication.
If it’s codeine you’re lucky to get 10 tablets per pack. I’ve even seen it as low as 6. But then something relatively harmless like antihistamine you get like 40 in a pack. Presumably if you overdose on those you would just be very mellow.
The purchase limit was entirely to stop suicide by overdose. It was amazingly effective. It turns out that the effort to go in and out of stores multiple times, to buy the drugs was more than most people could do.
I think you could do yourself some serious mischief even with 12 pills. Depends on the drug of course.
I think it’s more about stopping people from taking expired medication since if you’ve just got a huge bottle it’s probably going to sit in the cupboard for years and years. I probably go through 7 or 8 packs of 12 pills a year, again depending on medication.
If it’s codeine you’re lucky to get 10 tablets per pack. I’ve even seen it as low as 6. But then something relatively harmless like antihistamine you get like 40 in a pack. Presumably if you overdose on those you would just be very mellow.
The purchase limit was entirely to stop suicide by overdose. It was amazingly effective. It turns out that the effort to go in and out of stores multiple times, to buy the drugs was more than most people could do.
It’s slightly annoying, but worth it.