ArticleClinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology2015
High Prevalence of Psychotropics Overdose among Suicide Attempters in Korea.
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- Clinical course and demographic insights into suicide by self-poisoning: patterns of substance use and socio-economic factors.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Means to an end: Characteristics and follow-up of emergency department patients with a history of suicide attempt via medication overdose.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2025Article
- Hospitalisations related to administration errors of psychotropic drugs: a nationwide retrospective study between 1998 and 2019 in Australia.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Article
- Lessons to be learned: identifying high-risk medication and circumstances in patients at risk for suicidal self-poisoning.International journal of mental health systems · 2022Article
- Characteristics of Presentations to the Emergency Department Following Attempted Suicide with Drugs.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Relationship Between the Loudness Dependence of the Auditory Evoked Potential and the Severity of Suicidal Ideation in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe availability of suicide methods affects the risk of suicide attempts. This study examined the patterns of substances ingested by suicide attempters (SAs) and the characteristics of SAs using psychotropic overdoses.
methodsData for 384 of the 462 eligible SAs who used self-poisoning were analyzed. Demographic variables, clinical characteristics, and factors related to the suicide attempts were examined.
resultsThere were 256 (66.7%) females and 128 (33.3%) males. Roughly half the SAs ingested psychotropics (n=179, 46.6%). Agricultural chemicals (n=84, 21.9%) were the second most frequently ingested substances, followed by analgesics (n=62, 16.1%), household products (n=27, 7.0%), and other prescribed medications (n=23, 6.0%). Among psychotropics, the most frequently overdosed drugs were sedative-hypnotics, including hypnotics (n=104) and benzodiazepines (n=78). SAs favored Z-drugs and alprazolam. When compared with SAs with non-psychotropic overdoses, significantly more SAs with psychotropic overdoses were female (76% vs. 58.5%, p<0.001) and had a psychiatric history (59.8% vs. 29.8%, p<0.001). They had significantly more previous suicide attempts (0.52±1.02 vs. 0.32±0.80, p<0.05) and lower risk (7.96±1.49 vs. 8.44±1.99, p<0.01) and medical severity (3.06±0.81 vs. 3.37±0.93, p<0.005) scores.
conclusionPsychotropic overdose, especially with sedative-hypnotics, was a major method in suicide attempts. It is important that psychiatric patients are carefully evaluated and monitored for suicidality when prescribing psychotropics.
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