Completed suicides: Is there method in their madness? correlates of choice of method for suicide in an Australian sample of suicides

Clinical Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 133-140

  Haines, Janet ^a   Williams, Christopher L ^a   Lester, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; Methods for suicide; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HYPNOTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLISM; ANGER; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DROWNING; FEMALE; FIREARM; HANGING; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; JUMPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOSIS; RESTLESSNESS; SELF POISONING; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE;

EID: 78649777831     PISSN: 17244935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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