IANAP either, but I do get to look after people who genuinely and non-genuinely attempt suicide with various tablets. Co-Proxamol as noted by others above, contains 325mg of paracetamol and 32.5mg of dextroproxyphene. Dextroproxyphene is a weak opiod with about 1/10 the analgesic effect of morphine. With long term use, it too causes constipation, in overdose it has opiod effects (respiratory depression), and finally in conjunction with alcohol can cause cardiac arrhythmias and apnoea(total respiratory depression, i.e. no breathing). These effects are serious but reasonably treatable, albeit in an acute environment, eg:ICU. However the effect of paracetamol overdose is acute liver failure. IMHO acute liver failure is _the_ worst way to say goodbye to the world. Several weeks of agony whilst your liver falls apart and you s*** and bleed to death, is something you have to be slightly touched to consider. I am not really sure what I am trying to say here, as I agree with the comments about nanny states and people should be free to make _informed_ decisions about what they put in their body. However people who are attempting suicide are inherently not making informed, balanced decisions. Having seen _too_ many lethal paracetamol overdoses, I take the radical view of banning all paracetamol based drugs from over the counter sales. People will always try to commit suicide with something, limiting their choices to slightly less horrific alternatives is IMHO a good thing. The positive benefits of paracetamol such as _mild_ analgesia and control of pyrexia are nice, but only for mild problems. Anything mildly serious, and people need somethinger stronger than paracetamol. So all the people with these mild problems can suffer as far as I am concerned, if it means just one person doesn't get to enjoy the various facets of catastrophic liver failure. As pointed out several times, this is just my opinion, one of the many caring voices of the NHS