UK legislation on analgesic packs: before and after study of long term effect on poisonings.

Journal article

Objective To evaluate the long term effect of legislation limiting the size of packs of analgesics sold over the counter.

Design Before and after study.

Setting Suicides in England and Wales, data from six liver units in England and Scotland and five general hospitals in England, and UK data on sales of analgesics, between September 1993 and September 2002.

Data sources Office for National Statistics; ...

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Authors: Hawton, K; Simkin, S; Deeks, J; Cooper, J; Johnston, A

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
• Journal: BMJ
• Volume: 329
• Issue: 7474
• Pages: 1076-1079
• Publication date: 2004-11-06
• DOI: 10.1136/bmj.38253.572581.7C
• EISSN: 1756-1833
• ISSN: 1468-5833
• Language: English
• Keywords: Drug Packaging; Analgesics; Prognosis; Hospitalization; Humans; Nonprescription Drugs; Liver Transplantation; Overdose; Great Britain; Suicide; Poisson Distribution