Is anything OTC guaranteed to be lethal in high enough doses?

[nowitscomingback]

Is anything OTC/easily obtainable without a prescription guaranteed to be lethal? With or without combination of drugs, and pain and length do not matter, just the result.

 

[Forveleth]

I mean, bananas are lethal in a high enough dose.

The problem with medication ODs is two-fold:

1. You can not physically consume enough. There are plenty of medications that would require you eating literal pounds of pills before you reach the lethal dose. Your stomach is only so big. Your kidneys and liver immediately go to work flushing out foreign chemicals, which includes medications. You could not physically get meds in fast enough (or enough at all) to reach a lethal amount.
2. Side effects. A natural reaction to poisoning is vomiting. A lot of people fail OD attempts because they end up puking out the majority of meds before they are even absorbed by the body. Not to mention if you pass out, you can not ingest the full necessary dose. Also, you start feeling lousy and it is difficult to imbibe anything when you have a pounding headache and nausea.

For medications to be available for the public to grab and use, years, sometimes decades, of research needs to go into them to make them as safe as possible. They are not going to allow just anyone to purchase a product that could easily kill themselves (or someone else). There are strict, governmental rules on how medications work before they go anywhere near a pharmacy.

Unfortunately, what you want does not exist. The people who die from OTC drugs hit the lucky one in a million. The vast majority or people get sick and live. Otherwise, let us be honest, there would probably be a lot fewer of us here.

 

[nowitscomingback]

I mean, bananas are lethal in a high enough dose.

The problem with medication ODs is two-fold:

1. You can not physically consume enough. There are plenty of medications that would require you eating literal pounds of pills before you reach the lethal dose. Your stomach is only so big. Your kidneys and liver immediately go to work flushing out foreign chemicals, which includes medications. You could not physically get meds in fast enough (or enough at all) to reach a lethal amount.
2. Side effects. A natural reaction to poisoning is vomiting. A lot of people fail OD attempts because they end up puking out the majority of meds before they are even absorbed by the body. Not to mention if you pass out, you can not ingest the full necessary dose. Also, you start feeling lousy and it is difficult to imbibe anything when you have a pounding headache and nausea.

For medications to be available for the public to grab and use, years, sometimes decades, of research needs to go into them to make them as safe as possible. They are not going to allow just anyone to purchase a product that could easily kill themselves (or someone else). There are strict, governmental rules on how medications work before they go anywhere near a pharmacy.

Unfortunately, what you want does not exist. The people who die from OTC drugs hit the lucky one in a million. The vast majority or people get sick and live. Otherwise, let us be honest, there would probably be a lot fewer of us here.

Thank you very much for your response and informing me. Assuming I can obtain an illicit drug, which one would be most effective with the least room for error? I am very uninformed on this topic, if there are any good threads that could provide more info on how to successfully CTB by consuming a substance/drug please tell me, sorry for bothering you.

 

[egyptian_baddie]

I don't think there is any OTC med that can do that. they're manufactured against overdose, even supplements.

 

[Forveleth]

Thank you very much for your response and informing me. Assuming I can obtain an illicit drug, which one would be most effective with the least room for error? I am very uninformed on this topic, if there are any good threads that could provide more info on how to successfully CTB by consuming a substance/drug please tell me, sorry for bothering you.

If you want to go illicit drugs, your best bet is an opioid. Either high quality heroin or fentanyl.

Opioid Megathread & Overview

Preamble I wanted to write something similar to Stan's guide to SN but I hesitate to call this a guide because I can't in good conscience make a guide for something so unreliable in terms of access, lethality, and risk of permanent injury. I.e., traumatic brain injury from hypoxia. SN is a far...

sanctioned-suicide.net

 

[nowitscomingback]

If you want to go illicit drugs, your best bet is an opioid. Either high quality heroin or fentanyl.

Opioid Megathread & Overview

Preamble I wanted to write something similar to Stan's guide to SN but I hesitate to call this a guide because I can't in good conscience make a guide for something so unreliable in terms of access, lethality, and risk of permanent injury. I.e., traumatic brain injury from hypoxia. SN is a far...

sanctioned-suicide.net

Okay thank you. I am also seeing mentions of barbiturates such as nembutal in other threads. Are these as good of an option as opioids?

 

[Forveleth]

Okay thank you. I am also seeing mentions of barbiturates such as nembutal in other threads. Are these as good of an option as opioids?

Nembutal (pentabarbitol) is no longer available to 99% of the world and other barbiturates are not strong enough to be reliable.

 

[nowitscomingback]

Nembutal (pentabarbitol) is no longer available to 99% of the world and other barbiturates are not strong enough to be reliable.

Thank you very much for the advice, I'll be looking into opioids more indepth then. Have a great day