TGA backs away from making long-acting paracetamol S4
The main recommendation the TGA is following is to reduce supermarket pack sizes
The TGA has rejected a plan to make long-acting paracetamol a prescription-only drug, saying it could “disproportionately compromise the management of chronic pain”.
Despite an uptick in paracetamol overdoses, especially among children, the TGA has made an interim decision to merely reduce supermarket packs of immediate release (IR) paracetamol from 20 to 16 tablets and mandate blister packaging.
