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This is about attempts (!) in young (!) women (!). That’s so specific, it’s suffering from multiple-endpoint problems: look at 50 subgroups and some are always going to show some seemingly drastic change.

Here, the reporting of this factoid almost certainly means there was no significant change in actual suicides, or in attempted suicides of the population at large. So both may well be true.




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