Over 30 patients are treated for self-harm every day in hospitals and a third of cases involve alcohol, new research shows.
Self-harm presentations at emergency departments spike on most public holidays, when the link to alcohol is more pronounced than at the other times of the year, according to the study by Dr Christina Dillon of University College Cork.
New Year’s Day is the worst day of the year for self-harm presentations at Irish hospitals. An average of 56 people are treated in hospital emergency departments on January 1st, almost twice the average of other days.
Source: Paul Cullen,The Irish Times, 10/01/17
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