I read an article in the Journal of Psychiatry about the effect of the new sales restrictions for paracetamol on suicides. Some of the news is good, some bad. Impulse suicides attempts with paracetamol are much less common- this is thought to be because people no longer have 100 odd tablets sitting in the house to turn to when in a fit of misery or rage (with or without alcohol). However, as noted above, if you are really determined to kill your self, and do it with some planning, then it is entirely possible to get enough drugs to do so. The sad thing about the decrease in impulse suicides with painkillers is that shooting and hanging are now more common. These are more fatal actions. You can take a load paracetamol and half an hour later realise it was dumb, get on the phone to a hospital, and there's a chance with stomach pumps and the like that you will survive. Half an hour after you put a gun to your head, or after half an hour swinging from your bannister, with no one having discovered you...there's no going back. How do the findings of that report compare with your experiences from work Tom?