Restricting access to a suicide hotspot does not shift the problem to another location. An experiment of two river bridges in Brisbane, Australia.

Conclusions: The safety barriers were effective in preventing suicide from the Gateway Bridge, and no evidence of substitution of location was found. PMID: 24690051 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24690051?dopt=Abstract

Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - April 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Law CK, Sveticic J, De Leo D Tags: Aust N Z J Public Health Source Type: research

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