Resource Tag: PESTICIDE INGESTION

About 63% of global deaths from self harm occur in the Asia Pacific region. Most of these deaths occur in rural areas, where easy access to highly toxic pesticides turns many impulsive acts of self poisoning into suicide. The authors argue that the World Health Organization’s recent recommendations to focus suicide prevention strategies on the […]

This document assesses the impact of pesticide regulation on the number of deaths from poisoning in Sri Lanka. These regulations, implemented in the 1970s, aimed to reduce the number of deaths – mainly from self-poisoning – by limiting the availability & use of highly toxic pesticides. It is found that the total national number of […]

This study analyzed poisonings caused by pesticides that were reported to the Drug & Poison Information Center (DPIC), in Izmir from 1993 to 2001. Pesticide intoxications accounted for 8.8% of all poisonings. Attempted suicide was found to be predominant in the 19-29-year-old group (39.8%) of tested patients. Fatality due to pesticide poisoning was 0.4%. These […]

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A prospective autopsy study was undertaken at General Hospital in San Fernando, Trinidad to analyze 105 poisoning deaths that occurred in 1996-97. 99 of these deaths were suicides & 44.4% occurred in the 10-29 year age group. Agricultural poisons were the most common agents used in fatal poisonings. It is suggested that efforts to prevent […]

In this presentation, the author first described the epidemiology of suicide in Sri Lanka. The suicide rate is 47.0 per 100,000 population, a figure some believe may be an underrepresentation. 75% of suicides occur in rural areas. The most common method is self-poisoning & the most common motive is disappointment in love. The latter part […]

File copy includes an unpublished manuscript version of this article.

A retrospective study at the Poison Control Center of Costa Rica describes the pattern of pesticide poisoning that occurred during 1996. A total of 1274 exposures were reported. There were 284 suicide attempts, 193 by males & 91 by females. Education of the users of pesticides & the community in general is essential to creating […]

Sri Lanka has one of the highest rates of suicide in the world (29 per 100,000 population in 1980). Suicide is especially frequent among young adults, both male & female. Compared to the USA, the suicide rate for males age 15-24 years in Sri Lanka is nearly four times greater; the female rate nearly 13 […]

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The Suicide Research Project is a program of the American Defender Network to investigate the connection between the increase in suicide among young Americans & the increased use of “nerve gas” type pesticides & other neurotoxins (nerve poisons) in our habitat.