The impact of trends in psychotropic prescribing on the method of suicide in the elderly

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 115-120

  Shah, Ajit ^a   Lodhi, Lubbaba ^a  

^a WEST LONDON MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBAMAZEPINE; EXPLOSIVE; HYPNOTIC AGENT; LITHIUM; MOCLOBEMIDE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRANQUILIZER; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DROWNING; DRUG INTOXICATION; FEMALE; FIREARM; HANGING; HUMAN; JUMPING; LIQUID; MALE; PRESCRIPTION; SOLID; STRANGULATION; SUICIDE;

EID: 18844396072     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/rsmmsl.45.2.115     Document Type: Article

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