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As the draft Mental Health Bill is prepared to be put before Parliament, a former mental health patient and a mental health carer from Wales are heading for London to deliver crucial evidence.
A new study from Denmark suggests that there may be a link. Published in the November issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, the study set out to discover whether prenatal exposure to analgesics may affect the development of the nervous system of the foetus, leading to an increased risk of schizophrenia in adulthood. Results show that mothers who take analgesics in the second three months of pregnancy are four times more likely to have a child that will develop schizophrenia.
