Resource Tag: POISON CONTROL CENTRES

33 amoxapine overdoses, including 5 fatalities, were reported to 2 regional poison centres over an 18 month study period. The 15.2% mortality rate stands in alarming contrast to the 0.7% death rate for all other cyclic antidepressant overdoses reported to these same 2 centres during the study. Seizure activity was noted in 36.4% of amoxapine […]

A review of suicidal behavior in adolescents & children covering the epidemiology & taxonomy of suicide; recurrent adolescent suicidal behavior; evaluating the suicidal adolescent; diagnosis & treatment of acute overdose in adolescent; managing the suicidal adolescent; hospital treatment of the adolescent suicidal patient & the poison centre perspective. (KB)

The authors assessed the frequency of suicide subsequent to calls to a poison information center in a follow-up study. The 8 confirmed suicides out of 2,177 calls yielded a rate of 66.8 per 100,000 pop. – significantly higher than that for the general pop. 15 possible or probable suicides were identified also. The authors note […]

The operation of a service to provide psychiatric examination of patients admitted to a centre for the treatment of poisoning is described & its advantages are outlined. A description of one year’s cases from Edinburgh is given. Rates by sex, age & marital state, the methods used, the diagnosis & the disposals are presented. The […]

Compared a group of individuals who made contacts with the telephone Samaritan organization with a group treated for poisoning to learn what determines the action taken by a person in distress. The Samaritan group contained more men, the men were older, yet more of them were unmarried. For women, group mean ages were similar, but […]

In England & Wales during 1970, suicide caused 1 in 10 deaths within the age group 25-34, was among the first ten most important causes of death for those aged 45-64 & in those over 65 it was a substantial cause of death. In fact, mortality from suicide ranks in numerical importance with tuberculosis, peptic […]

Attempted suicide admissions to the Regional Poisoning Centre in Edinburgh are reviewed from 1968-74. Emphasis is given to trends in the rates but social & clinical data are also described. Results indicate: a fall in the rates for men & a levelling off for women; increases in the rates for e.g. young & divorced women; […]