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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8, 4550-4562; doi:10.3390/ijerph8124550 OPEN ACCESS International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ISSN 1660-4601 /journal/ijerph Review Controlling Access to Suicide Means Marco Sarchiapone 1, Laura Mandelli 1,2,*, Miriam Iosue 1, Costanza Andrisano 2 and Alec Roy 3 1 Department of Health Sciences, University of Molise, Via De Sanctis, Campobasso 86100, Italy; E-Mails: marco.sarchiapone@ (M.S.); m.iosue@alice.it (M.I.) 2 Institute of Psychiatry, University of Bologna, 5 V.le C. Pepoli, Bologna 40133, Italy; E-Mail: costanza.andrisano@studio.unibo.it 3 Psychiatry Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, 385 Tremont Ave., East Orange, NJ 07018, USA; E-Mail: alec.roy@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: laura.mandelli@unibo.it. Received: 27 October 2011; in revised form: 15 November 2011 / Accepted: 29 November 2011 / Published: 7 December 2011 Abstract: Background : Restricting access to common means of suicide, such as firearms, toxic gas, pesticides and other, has been shown to be effective in reducing rates of death in suicide. In the present review we aimed to summarize the empirical and clinical literature on controlling the access to means of suicide. Methods : This review made use of both MEDLINE, ISI Web of Science and the C