Psychotropic drugs in suicidal patients: a comparison of psychotropic medications in attempters and completed suicides.
The correlation between suicide rate and aspects of treatment have been little studied in suicidology in spite of medicalization of suicide. This study compares the medication of 30 patients who committed suicide during 1980-1989 from a catchment area in rural Ireland with 20 who attempted suicide in a neighbouring area where there were no suicides. More drugs had been given to patients who committed suicide and they received higher doses of neuroleptics and benzodiazepines than those who merely attempted suicide.
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St Davnet's Hospital, Monaghan, Ireland.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000009:adverse effects*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013405:Suicide
D011619:Psychotropic Drugs