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The study can help medical experts understand the risks of opioids.

Over the past few years, the escalating opioid crisis has touched off a complex debate about how best to reign in suicide risk among patients who are prescribed the addictive painkillers.

Controversy surrounds the effects of policies to reduce opioid prescriptions on suicide rates. There are concerns that rapid reductions in prescription opioids might provoke increased suicide risk among people who become desparate after they are taken off opioids. According to a new study, however, changes in regional opioid prescribing and regional suicide rates tend to move in the same direction. This relationship held for rates of opioid prescribing, rates of high-dose prescribing and long-term prescribing, and having multiple opioid prescribers.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Despite the lack of evidence of the safety of antipsychotics in children, who are smaller in size and still ...