Citation

Vega WA, Gil A, Warheit G, Apospori E, Zimmerman R. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 1993; 23(2): 110-119.

Affiliation

SAHS, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 94720.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8342210

Abstract

This study presents self-report cross-sectional and longitudinal data on associations between drug use, suicide ideation, and attempts in a multiethnic sample of seventh- and eighth-grade male adolescents attending school in the greater Miami, Florida, area. African Americans had the highest prevalence of 6-month ideation (20.5%), and Haitians had the highest attempts (11.4%). For the total sample, tranquilizers had the highest odds ratio for ideation (3.4), and PCP for attempts (6.2). Psychoactive drug-use was consistently related to attempts among Hispanics, white non-Hispanics, and African Americans. Acculturation strains interacted with cocaine and crack to predict suicide attempts among Hispanic respondents.