Why is asprin legal? but if you take 15 it will be your last headache?

Question

A. you don't know
B. You will explain
C. none of the above

Answer 1

Since its market introduction under the trademark Aspirin® in the year 1899, acetylsalicylic acid has attained a leading position world-wide in the prescription-free therapy of painful, inflammatory and feverish states. The substance's tolerability and special pharmacological traits allow for an easy controlling of therapy.
Other drugs that were legal at the time included heroin and opium, hash, hemp etc.

If aspirin had to endure the FDA approval process today it probably wouldn't make it. It's more dangerous than Vioxx, which was developed to eliminate some of the problems associated with aspirin. But Vioxx is prohibited while aspirin is freely available. Why?

Aspirin causes gastric lesions in rats and dogs, which are the standard small and large animal models for drug toxicity. This side effect occurs at levels which would raise red flags for any new compound. What would a present-day research organization do about it? If we stipulate that they could determine that aspirin worked by inhibiting cyclooxegenase enzymes, they would surely try to break the vascular effects of the drug apart from its anti-inflammatory effects. They would try to find new compounds that selectively inhibited only one of the enzyme subtypes. They would, in other words, produce Vioxx, and Celebrex, and the other COX-2 inhibitors, and this is just why these drugs were developed.

Full disclosure: I own stock in Merck, so I can’t say I’m unbiased. Yet I can’t help but think that there is something tremendously powerful at work here, something that has little to do with the responsible management of risk in society and much more to do with the unfightable power of public opinion. Given that Vioxx is clearly dangerous, and that aspirin is even worse (It’s the leading cause of dangerous drug side effects), why do we not simply forbid aspirin?

The answer is that the demand for aspirin can’t easily be quenched. Habit tells us that aspirin is okay, while even the name Vioxx sounds scary. Chances are also good that you and I don’t know of anyone who takes it — or at least we don’t know that they take it, which, for forming the thousands of snap judgments like these of which our opinions consist, is just the same.

For persons considering suicide Aspirin is not a very effective way to go. Rarely does one die from an Aspirin overdose. They usually get a big old tummy ache, lots of vomiting and some stomach ulcers and a liver that is so damaged that you'll die sooner than you would have had you not taken the aspirin.

Just about any over the counter drug taken large quantities will kill you, but most people who really want to die use a gun.

Suicide by pills or wrist slashing are considered cries for help, where a gunshot is a sure thing.

Answer 2

Taking fifteen asprin will not be your last headache. It will be the last time you have a working liver. After that, you get to have the headache of dialysis, and finding the money to pay for dialysis, and the headache of getting a new liver, and the headache of paying for a new liver, and the headache of waiting for somebody to DIE of something other than taking asprin so that you can get that stiff's liver put inside you.

S you see, those fifteen little asprins can make the medical comapnies a lot of money, but are really not dangerous to you in any way except to your bank account.

If you're trying to get attention there are a lot of other ways to "Fail" at suicide, and if you really want to end your headache, there are much faster ways to do it... but I'd rather you stuck around and took those asprins one at a time. After all, the world's gonna need all the women it can get if I'm ever going to have a chance at meeting Miss Right.

Answer 3

B.

It is legal because the pharmaceutical companies and the FDA decided that with proper use and precaution that if someone were dumb enough to take 15 (which you would more than likely throw up way before it actually killed you) that the little disclaimer on the package would suffice if there were ever a law suit.

It is understood and made clear the dose and the frequency.

Aspirin is also a chemical form of a naturally occurring herbal equivalent. The real aspirin comes from the inner white bark of the Birch tree.

Answer 4

C. None of the above

Answer 5

C... all drugs should be legal.... following directions is the key to successful use.... drug use... not drug abuse....

Can you imagine the public outcry if the commies tried to make asprin illegal....

Answer 6

my father is a police officer and he has seen people that have ate a whole bottle of asprin and he says that all it will do is make you feel like crap..

Answer 7

sweety, taking 15 asprin will not kill you.

Answer 8

D. Bored

Answer 9

Yep it would kill ya. I guess some drugs are good unless we mis use them.

Answer 10

A I don't now
I do not think it would kill you but it might make your blood thinner.