“…22 Since the 1990s, however, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) in China and several Asian countries, such as Malaysia, Singapore and Viet Nam, have reported the increasing use of medicinal drugs in self-poisoning and this is now the commonest mode of self-harm in urban areas of Malaysia and Viet Nam. [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] There are, however, no corresponding reports of medicinal drugs replacing pesticides as the preferred method of self-harm. The rapid and extensive spread of a novel method of suicide in China (including the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region SAR and Taiwan, China) -the burning of charcoal to produce fatal amounts of carbon monoxide -has been attributed to extensive media coverage.…”