It often depends on the light level. I had trouble clearly seeing to walk the last time but it was a clear sky with the sun low on the horizon, and I was wearing sun glasses.
On previous occasions when it had been overcast I had no problems at all. My eye tests where they use drops tend to be within easy walking distance of my home.
The small packs of 16(?) are inexpensive (2p per pill)
My mother suffered from depression for many years. One evening some forty years ago she swallowed the best part of a bottle of 100 paracetamols, drank the best part of a bottle of sherry, took several sleeping tablets, got into a hot bath and fell asleep. She came round in the middle of the night, got out of the now-cold bath, staggered around the house bumping into things, knocking things over and herself falling over before eventually contacting a neighbour who called an ambulance. Amazingly, she survived, although I still don't know why. Probably all the sherry etc made her vomit up the tablets while she was unconscious in the bath. She went on to live a tolerable life with the help of modern antidepressants and died seven years ago at the age of 95.
At about the time she took the paracetamols, I remember there was a proposal that all paracetamols should be made with the antidote built in, so that overdosing would be impossible, but it never came to anything. Either the mfrs or suppliers thought it would be too expensive, or the govt didn't think it worth introducing the legislation.
Nonsense. A 2004 report found a 22% reduction in England and Wales in suicidal deaths from paracetamol and salicylates in the year after the change in legislation, and a reduction over the next two years. Liver unit admissions and liver transplants for paracetamol induced liver toxicity in England and Scotland were reduced by about 30% in the few years after 1998. The total number of fatal overdoses was also reduced. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency,
The link you posted clearly shows that deaths from drug poisoning reached a peak in 1997, when the legislation was introduced. After that it fell almost every year for the ten years until 2007, after which it has been pretty steady.
In other words, the legislation did what it set out to do. One can disagree with it on other grounds, but not that one.
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