Suicidal behavior among drug addicts.

Objective: to describe the profi le of drug addicts attended in a mental health service, the frequency of suicidal behavior among the participants and the associations between these two problems. Method: an exploratory, retrospective and descriptive study based on a quantitative approach, and data collected from medical records of patients with F10-F19 diagnoses according to the ICD-10 treated in this service in 2013. We expected to identify a possible association between independent variables (family, psychiatric and personal history) and the dependent variable (suicidal behavior). Results: Most of the individuals were men, single, with a low educational attainment, unemployed and aged between 15 and 45 years; 43.90% had a record of suicidal behavior. Conclusion: drug addicts with suicidal behavior are young people under the age of 30 presenting psychiatric comorbidity, mood disorders and/or depression, presence of family confl ict, important dates coinciding with the suicidal behavior and mothers with psychiatric history.