Drug Addiction as Risk for Suicide Attempts

Dragisic, Tatjana; Dickov, Aleksandra; Dickov, Veselin; Mijatović, Vesna

doi:10.5455/msm.2015.27.188-191

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“…This illustrates competing risks—if dying earlier of liver‐related causes, patients do not live long enough to die of circulatory and respiratory causes,—and this should be taken into account in mortality rates and survival analysis. The higher proportion of specific sub categories of external causes—accidental poisoning with narcotics and hallucinogens—among persons with evidence of HCV compared to the general population is consistent with the studies reporting associations between suicides, accidental or drug‐related deaths and HCV …”

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“…This illustrates competing risks-if dying earlier of liver-related causes, patients do not live long enough to die of circulatory and respiratory causes,-and this should be taken into account in mortality rates and survival analysis. The higher proportion of specific sub categories of external causes-accidental poisoning with narcotics and hallucinogens-among persons with evidence of HCV compared to the general population is consis-tent with the studies reporting associations between suicides, accidental or drug-related deaths and HCV [19][20][21][22][23][24]. Interestingly, external causes were still one of the main causes ofdeath among persons with evidence of clearing HCV infection (last RNA result negative) and were significantly higher compared with those who continued to be RNA positive.…”

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Causes of death among persons diagnosed with hepatitis C infection in the pre‐ and post‐DAA era in England: A record linkage study

Simmons

Ireland

Ijaz

et al. 2019

Journal of Viral Hepatitis

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Summary Through record linkage, we describe the causes of death among persons with diagnosis of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in England. Persons ≥1 year with anti‐HCV/HCV‐PCR tests reported to PHE sentinel surveillance during 2002‐2016 were linked to death registrations from the Office for National Statistics during 2008‐2016. We found that 8.6% of the 204 265 with evidence of HCV during the study period died. Among them, external causes (accidental poisoning from drugs) and liver disease (end‐stage liver disease, liver cancer, hepatitis, alcohol‐ and non–alcohol‐related) were the leading underlying causes of death (18% and 34.5%, respectively); the latter increased to 49.2% if reported anywhere on the death certificate. Median age of death was lower in persons with evidence of HCV than the general population (53 years vs 81 years). A higher proportion of persons with HCV died of external causes, liver disease and HIV compared to the general population (P < 0.001). Potential impact of new HCV treatments was observed as a relative reduction in liver‐related deaths in 2016 compared with 2015. Recording of HCV as a contributory cause of death was 28.4% for all underlying causes, but 58.8% among the subgroup who died of liver disease. Data linkage between laboratory diagnosis and deaths data is an important tool for monitoring all‐cause mortality among those with HCV and quantifying under‐reporting of HCV in death registrations. Changes in mortality trends (causes and prematurity) in people with HCV can help evaluate the impact in the UK of HCV treatment scale‐up and other interventions to achieve HCV elimination.

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Causes of death among persons diagnosed with hepatitis C infection in the pre‐ and post‐DAA era in England: A record linkage study

Simmons

Ireland

Ijaz

et al. 2019

Journal of Viral Hepatitis

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“…Abubakar et al, (2014) showed that the duration of hospitalization for poisoning cases ranged from 1-41 days [39]. While mortality rate in our study was 0.8%, death rate in some other studies were 0.3% [16], 1.3% [24], 7.8% [38], 4.2 [26], and 16% [37].…”

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“…Following addiction, psychiatric disorders were common in our ndings. Dragisic et al, (2015), found that psychiatric history and addiction were the most common amongst patients committed suicide [37]. Senanayake and Karalliedde (1988) showed that intentional poisonings in cases between 11-30 years old in Serilanka happened in people with a history of psychiatric disorder [38].…”

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Pattern of Inpatients Acute Poisonings in Birjand City, East of Iran

Naseri

Kiani

Sajadi

et al. 2020

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Background: Information on the pattern of acute poisonings in Birjand hospitals is limited. This study aimed to address this knowledge gap by examining the admissions in a poisoning center in Birjand. Methods: Medical records of a main poisoning center in Birjand were reviewed for poisoned patients admitted to hospital from September 2017 to August 2018.Results: During the study period 897 cases of acute poisoning were evaluated. Patients’ age ranged from 11 to 97 years, with a high rate of poisonings between 15 and 25 years. A slight female predominance in poisoning cases was observed. Most cases of poisonings occurred in spring, and the common route of exposure was oral (90.7%). High incidence of poisoning occurred in married couples, uneducated patients, and residents of urban areas. Patients with a previous medical history experienced addiction and psychiatric disorders. Intentional poisoning accounted for 49.5% of acute poisoning cases referred to the hospital in the current study. The main groups of toxicants were pharmaceutical products (45.8%), chemicals (13.3%), and narcotics (9.4%). The mean of hospital stay was 2.8±3.0 days, and the final treatment outcome was 66.0% complete recovery. The mortality rate was 0.8%, and most cases of death were due to pesticides poisoning.Conclusions: Acute poisoning, particularly intentional poisoning, is common in Iran. Due to the high rate of deliberate poisonings, especially in young adults and students, monitoring drugs and distribution and exceptional attention to mental health should be seriously taken into consideration by national health authorities for the prevention of suicide attempts.

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“…should have greater supervision on drug programs of patients with mental health problems. Moreover, legal limitations should be applied on the delivery of drugs to individuals who visit drugstores and ask for drugs without a prescription [50]. In this research, 4.3% of the participants reported opium abuse.…”

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Psychological Risk Factors of Suicide Attempts in Patients Admitted to Emergency Departments

Amoli

Allahyari

Moudi

et al. 2018

Zahedan J Res Med Sci

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Background: Suicide, as a leading cause of death, needs more attention to discover different aspects of its occurrence and to implement proper programs for prevention and control. Objectives: This study aimed to assess psychological risk factors of suicidal attempts in patients referred to the hospitals. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, demographic characteristics, environmental stressors and three questionnaires [beck scale of suicide ideation (BSSI), quality of life (SF-12), and symptom checklist 90-R (SCL-90-R)], have been collected in all of the patients who were referred to emergency departments affiliated to Babol University of Medical Sciences, during 6 months.

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Drug Addiction as Risk for Suicide Attempts

Cited by 52 publications

References 23 publications

Causes of death among persons diagnosed with hepatitis C infection in the pre‐ and post‐DAA era in England: A record linkage study

Causes of death among persons diagnosed with hepatitis C infection in the pre‐ and post‐DAA era in England: A record linkage study

Pattern of Inpatients Acute Poisonings in Birjand City, East of Iran

Psychological Risk Factors of Suicide Attempts in Patients Admitted to Emergency Departments

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