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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory- Groups at Risk &amp;gt; Addicts &amp;gt; Substance Abusers &amp;gt; Drugs</title><link>http://www.suicidepreventionhelp.com/directory/Groups_at_Risk/Addicts/Substance_Abusers/Drugs/</link><description>Browse categories or use the search tool to find quality suicide prevention and related resources from around the world. Find resources related to suicide prevention and drug abuse.</description><item><title>The Suicide Love Drug</title> <link> http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f01/web3/sterling.html</link><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:38:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>NY Times -  Four Jersey  Suicide  Victims Show Traces of Cocaine</title> <link> http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&amp;res=9B0DE0D91739F932A15750C0A961948260</link><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:49:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Facts - Methamphetamine</title> <link> http://www.drugwarfacts.org/methamph.htm</link><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:57:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Suicide among heroin users: rates, risk factors and methods</title> <link> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=PubMed&amp;list_uids=12410779&amp;dopt=Abstract</link><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:08:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Drug use and suicide ideation and behavior among North Carolina public school students</title> <link> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=PubMed&amp;list_uids=1585967&amp;dopt=Abstract</link><description>Read an abstract of a study that showed drug use, particularly of crack/cocaine, was related to increased suicide ideation and behavior.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:25:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Suicides, Overdoses Linked to Detox Drug</title> <link> http://opioids.com/naltrexone/suicide.html</link><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:09:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Suicide Among Hospitalized Opiate Addicts</title> <link> http://www.drugtext.org/library/books/epidemiology/chapter17.htm</link><description>Read this study that reveals that hospitalized opiate addicts commit suicide more frequently than the general population .</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:18:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hallucinogens</title> <link> http://www.sayno.com/hallucin.html</link><description>Reveals that the extreme panic and agitation of a &quot;bad trip&quot; have been known to lead to suicide, or to accidental deaths as users have tried to flee from their hallucinations.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:33:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sex and drug use increase teen suicide risk</title> <link> http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/2004/2/20041631.shtml</link><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:35:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cocaine use disorders and suicidal ideation</title> <link> http://www.cocaine.org/suicide/</link><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:45:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Relationship between suicide and heroin overdose among methadone maintenance patients</title> <link> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=PubMed&amp;list_uids=11571063&amp;dopt=Abstract</link><description>Read an abstract of this study that examined the relationship between attempted suicide and non-fatal heroin overdose among methadone maintenance patients.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:06:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>About - Sex, Drug Use Increase Teen Depression, Suicide</title> <link> http://alcoholism.about.com/od/tipsforparents/a/blnida050408.htm</link><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:27:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Join Together - Suicide Brings Attention to Teen Prescription Drug Use</title> <link> http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2006/suicide-brings-attention-to.html</link><description>News item reports that a Arlington, Mass., teen killed himself after using the antianxiety drug Klonapine to get high.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Physician Suicide and Drug Abuse</title> <link> http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/162/7/1390</link><description>Offers an abstract of a study that was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:33:31 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>