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When the economics is personal

The New Bazaar

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Do Pill Mill Laws Affect Suicide Rates?

Soyou: We look to see how suicides are affected by the introduction of these pillmell laws in those states relative to their own past rights arit before the laws were passed. And what you tend to find is that the overall suicide rate does seem to drop a little bit, somewhere between two to three %. Soyou saw the exact group that you would have expected to be receiving the payng medication be affected by the pill mill laws. So it wasn't coming from a bunch of young adults. It was coming from a few of these moms and dads in these older groups that were participate in those ban markets.

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