Voluntary Self-Poisoning as a Cause of Admission to a Tertiary Hospital Internal Medicine Clinic in Piraeus, Greece Within a Year

The present paper records all cases of voluntary self-poisoning with drugs or toxical substances hospitalized in an internal medicine department in Pireaus, Greece within a year. The incidence rate & the distribution in terms of sex, age, marital status, employment, the kind of toxical substance taken, the outcome & the causes are also studied. The authors also estimate the psychiatric morbidity rate in patients with voluntary self-poisoning & examine the significance of psychiatric help for these patients. (21 refs)