Find resources related to suicide prevention and drug abuse.
Advanced| About - Sex, Drug Use Increase Teen Depression, Suicide - http://alcoholism.about.com/od/tipsforparents/a/blnida050408.htm Notes that researchers have found that teens who had not initiated sex or drug abuse had the lowest levels of depression, suicidal thoughts, and suicide attempts. - [Read more] |
| Cocaine use disorders and suicidal ideation - http://www.cocaine.org/suicide/ Study reveals that 43.7% of patients with only a cocaine use disorder expressed suicidal ideation compared to 38% of those with both cocaine and alcohol use disorders. - [Read more] |
| Drug use and suicide ideation and behavior among North Carolina public school students - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1585967&dopt=Abstract Read an abstract of a study that showed drug use, particularly of crack/cocaine, was related to increased suicide ideation and behavior. - [Read more] |
| Facts - Methamphetamine - http://www.drugwarfacts.org/methamph.htm Reveals that continued high doses of methamphetamine can produce an amphetamine psychosis in which, after the stimulation phase; and a prolonged depression, suicide is possible. - [Read more] |
| Hallucinogens - http://www.sayno.com/hallucin.html Reveals that the extreme panic and agitation of a "bad trip" have been known to lead to suicide, or to accidental deaths as users have tried to flee from their hallucinations. - [Read more] |
| Join Together - Suicide Brings Attention to Teen Prescription Drug Use - http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2006/suicide-brings-attention-to.html News item reports that a Arlington, Mass., teen killed himself after using the antianxiety drug Klonapine to get high. - [Read more] |
| NY Times - Four Jersey Suicide Victims Show Traces of Cocaine - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9B0DE0D91739F932A15750C0A961948260 News item reports that four Bergenfield, N.J., teen-agers who asphyxiated themselves in a suicide pact last week had taken cocaine about two hours before their deaths. - [Read more] |
| Physician Suicide and Drug Abuse - http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/162/7/1390 Offers an abstract of a study that was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. - [Read more] |
| Relationship between suicide and heroin overdose among methadone maintenance patients - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11571063&dopt=Abstract Read an abstract of this study that examined the relationship between attempted suicide and non-fatal heroin overdose among methadone maintenance patients. - [Read more] |
| Sex and drug use increase teen suicide risk - http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/2004/2/20041631.shtml Reveals that teens who engage in high-risk behaviors involving sex and drugs have significantly higher odds of depression, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts than teens who say no to sex and drugs, according to a study. - [Read more] |
| Suicide among heroin users: rates, risk factors and methods - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12410779&dopt=Abstract Discover this paper that examines critically the literature on suicide rates, suicide risk factors and methods employed for suicide among heroin users, and compares these to those of the general population. - [Read more] |
| Suicide Among Hospitalized Opiate Addicts - http://www.drugtext.org/library/books/epidemiology/chapter17.htm Read this study that reveals that hospitalized opiate addicts commit suicide more frequently than the general population . - [Read more] |
| Suicides, Overdoses Linked to Detox Drug - http://opioids.com/naltrexone/suicide.html Shares a confidential briefing paper on national trials of the heroin detoxification drug naltrexone has revealed alarming rates of overdose and suicide among those receiving treatment. - [Read more] |
| The Suicide Love Drug - http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f01/web3/sterling.html Read this paper on MDMA where it was found that in case tests on the victims of serious suicide attempts or suicides, 95% of the patients' brains showed chemical abnormalities linked to a lack of serotonin. - [Read more] |