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Thursday, 9 August, 2012, 13:43

Therapeutic drugs kill 8


Eight of the 11 deaths due to poisoning last year in Switzerland were due to therapeutic drugs.

That’s according to the Swiss Toxicological Information Centre.

The other three poison-related deaths in 2011 were due to industrial products.

Recreational drugs accounted for only 12 percent of non-lethal, but serious, cases.


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