Factors associated with suicide attempts among injection drug users

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1553-1559

  Backmund, Markus ^a   Meyer, Kirsten ^a   Schütz, Christian ^b   Reimer, Jens ^c  

^a Klinikum Schwabing   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

attempted suicide; burden of disease; opiate dependence; risk factor; screening; social bereavement; treatment access

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 80052100556     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826084.2011.564443     Document Type: Review

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