Are People Who Die by Intentional Medication Poisoning Dispensed Those Medications in the Year Prior to Death?

• Published in: Archives of suicide research Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 1083 - 1090
• Main Authors: Boggs, Jennifer M., Simon, Gregory E., Beck, Arne, Rossom, Rebecca C., Lynch, Frances L., Lu, Christine Y., Owen-Smith, Ashli A., Waring, Stephen C., Ahmedani, Brian K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Taylor & Francis Ltd 01.07.2023
• Subjects: Access; Analgesics, Opioid - therapeutic use; Blister packs; Counseling; Death & dying; Drug Overdose - prevention & control; Drug Overdose - psychology; Drugs; Friendship; Health care; Humans; Hypnotics and Sedatives - therapeutic use; Intervention; Mental health; Narcotic Antagonists - therapeutic use; Narcotics; Opioids; Poisoning; Prevention; Prevention programs; Psychotropic Drugs - therapeutic use; Selfpoisoning; Suicide; Suicide prevention; Suicides & suicide attempts; United States - epidemiology; United States; lethal means; self-poisoning; medication poisoning; medication sources; Intentional poisoning

The rate of suicidal poisoning in the United States has increased substantially over the past 20 years. Understanding whether prescription medications used for self-poisoning were recently dispensed would help inform suicide prevention efforts. Alternatively, medications for self-poisoning could hav...