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With the toxin they put in Tylenol (to prevent abuse), you'd blow out your liver if you did that.

In books, you get "chewing asprin without the water." So yes, it's dramatic, but not realistic. It's just a way of conveying through action "Ouch, that really freaking hurts."

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> With the toxin they put in Tylenol (to prevent abuse)

...acetaminophen itself is what kills your liver in an overdose, there is no "toxin they put in tylenol"

Got it upside down. Acetaminophen is added to opioids to prevent rec use and abuse.

The confusion here is that "tylenol" in the US basically means just Acetaminophen - technically tylenol 3s have opiods, but most americans know tylenol as the over the counter tylenols, which are just acetaminophen.

In other places tylenol must mean what we think of as tylenol 3

That explains...a lot actually.

Some studies out there linking acetaminophen to reduced empathy.

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