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Opioids carry greatest risk of suicidal overdose
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the brown university psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7532
pISSN - 1068-5308
DOI - 10.1002/pu.30594
Subject(s) - medicine , drug overdose , drug , medical emergency , psychiatry , poison control
A cross‐sectional analysis of suicidal acts involving drug poisoning has found that opioids were the drug class most commonly identified in fatal suicide poisonings. The researchers estimated that 75% to 87% of suicide incidents involving opioids would not have resulted in death had opioids not been involved.