Homicide and suicide rates among mentally ill on the decline

Wednesday, July 7, 2010 - 09:21 in Health & Medicine

People with mental health problems are committing fewer homicides while the number of suicides by mental health patients has also fallen, latest figures for England and Wales reveal; a previous rise in homicides by mentally ill people may have been the result of drug misuse, says the report.

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