Painkiller ban cuts suicides
AN END to prescriptions for a common painkiller has led to a drop in suicides involving the drug – without a rise in deaths from other painkillers, researchers said.
Co-proxamol was behind 766 deaths in England and Wales between 1997 and 1999, according to the study published on bmj.com.
Scientists said withdrawing co-proxamol from the UK market was followed by a "major" reduction in suicides and accidental poisonings involving the drug, which had a "relatively narrow" margin between the concentration at which it was therapeutic and a fatal dose.
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