Resource Tag: STREET DRUGS

This study evaluated the relative contributions of cannabis use, depressive, & anxious symptoms in the prediction of suicidal behaviours. 248 high-school students in Toulouse, France completed questionnaires. Cannabis use was a significant independent predictor of suicidal behaviours after adjustment for depressive & anxious symptoms. (12 refs.)

This study investigated the link between the use of specific types of substances & suicidality in adolescent inpatients with schizophrenia & schizoaffective disorder. A 10-year naturalistic retrospective study of 178 adolescents inpatients was performed. The suicide attempters reported considerably greater usage of inhalants & lysergic acid diethylamide. Alcohol & methylene-dioxy-methylamphethamine were also used significantly more […]

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Hypothesis  Methamphetamine use affects length of hospital stay in the minimally injured patient. Design  Case series. Setting  The only tertiary trauma center serving Hawaii. Patients  Trauma patients examined during a 12-month period with an Injury Severity Score of 1 to 5 and an age of 18 to 55 years undergoing urine toxicology screen for suspected […]

Nonfatal heroin overdoses and suicide attempts are both common among heroin addicts, but there is limited knowledge about the association between them. The sample in the present study consisted of 149 regular heroin users in Malmö, Sweden. Out of these 98 had taken an unintentional heroin overdose at some time and 51 had made at […]

The authors collected data on all suicides between 1990-2000 from the office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York City & assessed trends & correlates of firearm-related suicides. There were a total of 6,008 suicides, 1200 were firearm-related. There was a decrease in total suicides, total firearm suicides, & the proportion of firearm-related suicides. […]

States included in this study: Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia, & Wisconsin.

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This study examined the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics & the number, type, & level of drugs present in an unrestricted age sample of completed suicides in Queensland. An analysis was done of 893 substance-related suicides using government data for the years 1989-1992. The number & type of substances present were related to the individuals’ gender, […]

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The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between suicide & cocaine & ethanol use among completed suicides in Fulton County, Ga., from 1994 through 1998. The authors found significant race, sex, & age differences among the victims who had used cocaine & ethanol before committing suicide, especially in teenage victims. Overall, ethanol […]

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Published in “The Suicidal Process: Challenges for Treatment and Prevention”

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292 recently abstinent opiate or cocaine dependent patients were asked to complete the Barratt Impulsivity Scale (BIS). Those who had attempted suicide were compared with those who had never attempted suicide for their scores on the BIS. The results showed that there was no significant difference between the drug dependent patients who had attempted suicide […]

The authors assessed the prevalence of anabolic steroid use in a large population-based sample of adolescents, & identified personal, socio-environmental, & behavioral factors related to the health of adolescents that use anabolic steroids. They found that in males, steroid use was associated with poorer self-esteem & higher rates of depressed mood & attempted suicide. Implications […]

This article describes the characteristics of opiate dependent patients who attempt suicide. Significantly more opiate dependent patients who had attempted suicide were female & unemployed. Patients who had attempted suicide reported significantly more family history of suicide & more childhood trauma; scored significantly higher for introversion, hostility, & neuroticism; & had experienced significantly more comorbidity […]