Tylenol Isn't So Safe, But At Least It Works, Right? | American Council on Science and Health

Tylenol Isn't So Safe, But At Least It Works, Right? | American Council on Science and Health
"(Part 2/2) See: Is Tylenol 'By Far the Most Dangerous Drug Ever Made?'

I'm not a big fan of Tylenol, which becomes rather obvious if you read the first part of this two-part series. 

For a drug that is so widely used, it is quite easy to consume enough, accidentally or otherwise, to take enough to suffer a toxic overdose due to irreversible liver damage.

But drugs cannot be judged by safety alone. 

Both the good and the bad - benefits and risks - must be taken into account to get the true measure of the quality of a drug. 

So if Tylenol isn't all that safe, you might expect that, at the very least, it should work well. Otherwise, why would so many people be taking it?

That's the $64,000 question, and here's the answer. 

In reality, Tylenol doesn't work very well at all, and there is plenty of evidence to back this up, especially in systematic Cochrane Reviews - highly regarded, evidence-based reviews that carefully evaluate the quality of data in multiple studies. Here are some representative analyses..."

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