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Patients with mood disorders are at high risk for suicide—their risk is as much as 30 times higher than that of the general population, say researchers from the University of Verona in Italy and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Medication plays a relatively minor role in most suicide prevention strategies, they add, but that role may have been underestimated.