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If poison expires it becomes safer
If medicine expires it becomes poison
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If you wait long enough does poison expire and become medicine again tho?
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In the case of tetracycline antibiotics the degradation products can damage the kidneys and cause Fanconi syndrome. So in that case as a medicine for people it becomes poison, as a poison for bacteria it becomes safer.
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Not necessarily.
Aspirin yes, paracetamol no.
Some medicine also just becomes less effective, not more dangerous.
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