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In Norway, the sales of narcotic drugs have been subject to increasingly rigorous control, especially since 1970 when a monitory system for the legal prescription and use of narcotics was introduced (Jøldal and Halvorsen 1982). Regulatory measures, however, have not been sufficient to prevent an increasing number of self-poisonings in Norway, self-poisoning becoming the most commonly used suicide method in Norway about 1980 (Ekeberg et al. 1985).
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Ekeberg, O., Jacobsen, D., Flaaten, B., Mack, A. (1988). Effect of Deregistration of Drugs and Prescription Recommendations on the Pattern of Self-Poisonings. In: Möller, HJ., Schmidtke, A., Welz, R. (eds) Current Issues of Suicidology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73358-1_59
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