Suicide and second victims

Toxicology testing and results for suicide victims--13 states, 2004.

In 2003, an estimated 31,484 suicides (10.7 per 100,000 population) occurred in the United States. Suicide was the fourth leading cause of death among persons aged 10-64 years and the second and third leading causes of death among persons aged 25-34 and 10-24 years, respectively. Few studies have attempted to determine the contribution of substance use to suicide. To assess toxicology testing p...

Accident-proneness in Attempted Suicide and in Automobile Accident Victims.

Differences between children and adolescents who commit suicide and their peers: A psychological autopsy of suicide victims compared to accident victims and a community sample

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to gain knowledge about the circumstances related to suicide among children and adolescents 15 years and younger. METHODS We conducted a psychological autopsy, collecting information from parents, hospital records and police reports on persons below the age of 16 who had committed suicide in Norway during a 12-year period (1993-2004) (n = 41). Those wh...

Correction: Differences between children and adolescents who commit suicide and their peers: A psychological autopsy of suicide victims compared to accident victims and a community sample

Correction Since the publication of our article [1], we have noticed an error which occurs in three different places. We refer to 25% who met the criteria for a psychiatric diagnosis, but the correct value is 20%. Details of each correction are listed below. Firstly, in the first sentence of the Results section of the Abstract, the statement “Among the suicides 25% met the criteria for a psychi...

[Postmortem studies of the brain of suicide victims].

The authors present a bibliography concerning post mortem studies in depression and suicide victims. They stress the difficulties of this trans-disciplinary approach, joining clinical, toxicological, anatomopathological, and biological points of view. Concerning indolamines, catecholamines, receptors studies, an analysis of the results shows major methodological differences. This makes any comp...