Comment by Jach
4 hours ago
In the US, Aleve is the name-brand pill for naproxen, available in grocery stores next to everything else. I have a bottle of 160 gelcaps. Each pill is 220mg naproxen sodium or in parentheses 200 mg of naproxen. The advertised effect is 12 hours / all day, getting anywhere near 4g would only happen in a suicidal "swallow bottle of pills" situation.
So its a bottle, not a blister pack?
wild.
I know that blister packs are a pain, but in the places that they are introduced they reduce pill based suicide by up to 40%[1]
Sorry I should have been more clear about the 4g, that was for paracetamol. I have no idea what it would be for naproxen
[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC526120/
GP meant 4g is the safe limit to paracetamol (hence "liver pain"). About 8 typical doses over 24 hours. It's little known amongst the general population, who have the occasional extreme of people taking double doses every few hours