Do alcohol restrictions reduce suicide mortality?

Addiction

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 251-256

  Värnik, Airi ^a,b,c,d   Kõlves, Kairi ^a,b   Väli, Marika ^b   Tooding, Liina Mai ^b   Wasserman, Danuta ^c  

^a Estonian Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute (ERSI)   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Age; Alcohol; Alcohol restriction; Gender; Mortality; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTONIA; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRECURSOR; RISK REDUCTION; SUICIDE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE;

EID: 33846237646     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01687.x     Document Type: Article

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