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Almost all drugs have harmful side effects including death. your premise would virtually eliminate all pharmaceuticals. Particularly some of the most effective at saving lives.
Every drug is fatal at dosage X, useless at dosage Y, and most effective at dosage Z. These dosages ought to be determined before it ever hits the market, and the information made available to consumers, so that anybody consuming dosage X knows that it's fatal. To compare with Hammurabi, this would be like the occupant of the house destroying one of the support beams, in which case the collapse results from their own stupidity instead of the architect's negligence.
If a drug's X and Z dosages are close together, such that using the drug to treat the illness risks an overdose (different metabolisms or whatever), that information should also be made public. Again, the consumer uses the drug at their own risk; the company did everything they could to mitigate the risks.
If the drug company does not determine the maximum safe dosage, or does not make this information crystal bloody clear to its consumers, then the directors are negligent and ought to be punished severely for it.
And yes, you could phrase this principle in the form of drug regulations, but it shouldn't require more than one page to convey the entirety of this information. Anything more is pointless bureaucracy.