LIFE

Stop Pushing The Pills

Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 18/11/2014

» No well-stocked household medicine cabinet is complete without paracetamol. And this attributes to an estimated 100 million pills of the pain reliever Thai people take per year, according to figures from the Government Pharmaceutical Organization. “Thais consume a considerable amount of paracetamol,” commented hepatology specialist Dr Thawat Mongkolporn. “Especially if compared to other countries, Thailand is very likely to take more. Although paracetamol is available over-the-counter everywhere, Thai people have less know-how when it comes to medicine usage.”