When I first visited the US and saw pills came in bottles rather than blister packs, it was one of those little culture shock things.
But for years I never knew why the difference existed.
That changed recently. The popularity of blister packs in Europe is a suicide-prevention method.
It's dead easy to open a bottle and neck the contents. Try it with a blister pack and you get bored.
Apparently this is a real effect.
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Dr David Mills
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I Shot JR Hartley
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this is true. Being deeply depressed is “I don’t want to do anything”. And suicide is WORK.
It’s a genuine effect.
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This is also why a few years ago shops stopped being able to sell you off-the-shelf painkillers in boxes of more than 16, to add extra inconvenience on top of the blister pack.
(You just go round multiple shops to stock up and decant them all into a bottle for later.)
West Lawns
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When I was a kid you could buy 100 tablets, now just 16.