Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death, roughly equivalent in size to road traffic accidents.
It is one of the aims of WHO to reduce this burden. The neurosciences are becoming more widely developed and complex, especially neuropsychopharmacology. Psychopharmacists are also the persons best qualified as advisors about psychiatric drugs to psychiatrists, clinicians and nursing staff. It is the aim of the European Psychopharmacists to lead the way to ensure that every patient receives a safe, effective, economic, rational treatment and does not receive drugs when it is not appropriate. The need to develop joint working has appeared increasingly in our own country of Belgium but will also be the case for other countries if the WHO aim is to be achieved.