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The acetaminophen you take for a headache or toothache may inadvertently drive you to tell your boss off or to drive less defensively.  Ohio State psychologists studied a total of 542 undergrads in 3 randomized controlled studies.

 

Those students taking acetaminophen demonstrated twice as much risky behavior on a virtual ballon inflation game compared with those on placebo.   They inflated the balloons with abandon bursting them. 

 

Normally nearly one in every 4 Americans takes acetaminophen on a regular basis.   During our current pandemic, use is skyrocketing and that threatens an epidemic of bad judgment. 

 

https://academic.oup.com/scan/advance-article/doi/10.1093/scan/nsaa108/5897711

 

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