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Dementia: Suicide by drowning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Emad Salib
Emad Salib*
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Peasley Cross Hospital, St Helens WA9 3DA, UK. Email: [email protected]
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 194 , Issue 6 , June 2009 , pp. 562 - 563
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