Suicides down after painkiller axed

The Press Association: "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.

Co-proxamol was once the most common prescription drug used in suicides and between 1997 and 1999 was behind 766 deaths in England and Wales, according to the study published on bmj.com."