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Conditional logistic regression was used to compute relative risk.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0033291709005741_sec_a003\" sec-type=\"results\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A prior hospital admission for poisoning with weak non-opioid analgesics significantly increased the risk of subsequent suicide [crude incidence rate ratio (IRR) 24.7, 95% confidence interval (CI) 22.1\u201327.6], and the effect of paracetamol poisoning was substantially stronger than that of poisoning with salicylates or non-steriodal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). This association could not be explained by confounding from socio-economic or psychiatric factors. The elevated risk was extremely high during the first week following the overdose (adjusted IRR 738.9, 95% CI 173.9\u20133139.1), then declined over time but still remained significantly high 3 years later (adjusted IRR 4.2, 95% CI 3.5\u20135.0). Moreover, a history of weak analgesic poisoning significantly interacted with a person's psychiatric history, increasing the risk for subsequent suicide substantially more for persons with no history of psychiatric hospitalization than did it for those with such a history.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0033291709005741_sec_a004\" sec-type=\"conclusion\"><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>A history of non-fatal poisoning with weak analgesics is a strong predictor for subsequent suicide. 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