Healio (3/31, Gramigna) reports, “Patients at risk for suicide should be prevented from accessing” medications “with high case fatality rates,” investigators concluded after analyzing data on “421,466 poisoning suicidal acts that resulted in 21,594 deaths.” The findings of the “cross-sectional study” were published online in JAMA Network Open.
Related Links:
— “Restricting suicidal patients’ access to drugs with high case fatality rates vital to suicide prevention, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, March 31, 2020