{"id":117637,"date":"2020-12-26T01:23:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T09:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/the-most-common-pain-relief-drug-in-the-world-has-been-linked-to-risk-taking-behaviour"},"modified":"2020-12-26T01:23:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T09:23:33","slug":"the-most-common-pain-relief-drug-in-the-world-has-been-linked-to-risk-taking-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/the-most-common-pain-relief-drug-in-the-world-has-been-linked-to-risk-taking-behaviour","title":{"rendered":"The Most Common Pain Relief Drug in The World Has Been Linked to Risk-Taking Behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-most-common-pain-relief-drug-in-the-world-has-been-linked-to-risk-taking-behaviour2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most consumed drugs in the US \u2013 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drugbank.ca\/drugs\/DB00316\">most commonly taken analgesic worldwide<\/a> \u2013 could be doing a lot more than simply taking the edge off your headache, recent evidence suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol and sold widely under the brand names Tylenol and Panadol, also increases risk-taking, according to a September 2020 study that measured changes in people\u2019s behaviour when under the influence of the common over-the-counter medication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcetaminophen seems to make people feel less negative emotion when they consider risky activities \u2013 they just don\u2019t feel as scared,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.osu.edu\/a-pain-reliever-that-alters-perceptions-of-risk\/\">said<\/a> neuroscientist Baldwin Way from The Ohio State University in September 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most consumed drugs in the US \u2013 and the most commonly taken analgesic worldwide \u2013 could be doing a lot more than simply taking the edge off your headache, recent evidence suggests. Acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol and sold widely under the brand names Tylenol and Panadol, also increases risk-taking, according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}