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He has told me that he has taken a large overdose of tablets, that he wants to die.

He reclines on the ambulance trolley refusing to talk to me, of what he has taken we are not sure. We've done some detective work and from the empty packets it looks like it might be a lethal dose.

Luckily for him, this lethal dose can be treated in hospital.

I ask him why he wants to kill himself.

'I've got nothing', he tells me, 'nothing to live for'.

He's eighteen and already he thinks that his life isn't worth ...