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by DanBC 3021 days ago
Reducing access to methods is a key part of suicide prevention work.

In the US the main methods are guns and opioid medication. Reducing access is politicially difficult, but would save tens of thousands of lives each year.

If you have a stockpile of medication please either keep it locked away, or give it back to the pharmacist. A disturbing number of children die after taking their grandparent's medication that's been left out because "we don't have children around".