All‐cause and suicide mortality among people with methamphetamine use disorder: a nation‐wide cohort study in Taiwan

• Published in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) Vol. 116; no. 11; pp. 3127 - 3138
• Main Authors: Lee, Wan‐Chen, Chang, Hu‐Ming, Huang, Ming‐Chyi, Pan, Chun‐Hung, Su, Sheng‐Siang, Tsai, Shang‐Ying, Chen, Chiao‐Chicy, Kuo, Chian‐Jue
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2021
• Subjects: Burning; Causes; Certification; Cohort analysis; Cohort study; Death; Death & dying; Drug overdose; Health problems; Jumping; Medical research; Methamphetamine; Mortality; Mortality rates; Neurological diseases; Overdose; Public health; standardized mortality ratio; Suicide; suicide method; Suicides & suicide attempts; Taiwan; mortality; standardized mortality ratio; suicide method; methamphetamine; Cohort study; suicide

Background and aims Although methamphetamine use is a serious public health problem, large‐scale cohort studies assessing methamphetamine‐related mortality are scant. This study investigated all‐cause mortality and suicide methods in people with methamphetamine use disorder. Design A cohort record‐l...