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Suicide rates tumble in people with HIV in Canadian study but psychiatric drug use remains high in Danish people with HIV
Gus Cairns, 2013-10-21 10:50:00
A study presented at the 14th European AIDS Conference last week found that the suicide rate in people with HIV in British Columbia, Canada, had fallen 35-fold since 1996 and was now close to that in the general population. However, a second study from Denmark found rates of psychiatric drug use two to three times higher than in the general population, especially of sleeping pills and tranquillisers, and a marked rise in the use of anti-psychotic drugs after seven or eight years of diagnosis.
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