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Mon 09 Sep 2008Suicide strategy lacks funding
GOVERNMENT AIMS to reduce the number of people taking their own lives are being undermined by a lack of resources for suicide prevention strategies, campaigners have warned.
Speaking at the annual conference of the Irish Association of Suicidology, consultant psychiatrist Dr Siobhán Barry told delegates that 10 times more funding goes towards preventing road deaths than helping to prevent suicide.
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