Why tablet medicine is mixed with other stuff and make it larger, won’t smaller tablet are easier to swallow?

Question

My thinking is it is larger so it’s easier to divide and not get digested as fast

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Answer 1

The amount of Fentanyl to kill you is just a grain of sand.

Ok that’s not precise, and it’s probably wrong, but the idea is the same: The actual *actual* amount of *real* medicine could be very miniscule, like a grain of sand or a half of a grain of rice.

So mixing it with other stuff to make a pill, makes it easier to:

* Swallow
* Count (at the pharmacy)
* Handle (can you pick up a grain of sand?)