Discerning suicide in drug intoxication deaths: Paucity and primacy of suicide notes and psychiatric history.

OBJECTIVE:A paucity of corroborative psychological and psychiatric evidence may be inhibiting detection of drug intoxication suicides in the United States. We evaluated the relative importance of suicide notes and psychiatric history in the classification of suicide by drug intoxication versus firea...

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Main Authors: Ian R H Rockett, Eric D Caine, Hilary S Connery, Gail D'Onofrio, David J Gunnell, Ted R Miller, Kurt B Nolte, Mark S Kaplan, Nestor D Kapusta, Christa L Lilly, Lewis S Nelson, Sandra L Putnam, Steven Stack, Peeter Värnik, Lynn R Webster, Haomiao Jia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5761891?pdf=render