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Rise in suicides

The economic crisis in Europe and North America led to more than 10,000 extra suicides, reports [s]BBC News[/s]. Some suicides may have been avoidable, since some countries showed no increase. The study by the [b]University of Oxford[/b] and the [b]London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine[/b] analysed data from 24 EU countries, the US and Canada.

[link url=http://www.bbc.com/news/health-27796628]Full BBC News report[/link]
[link url=http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/early/2014/05/23/bjp.bp.114.144766.abstract?sid=fb92520b-aba8-469d-8553-97559a42ed24]British Journal of Psychology abstract[/link]

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