Citation

Lavigne JE, McCarthy MM, Chapman R, Petrilla A, Knox KL. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2012; 42(5): 561-566.

Affiliation

Jill E. Lavigne, Wegmans School of Pharmacy, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY; Major Michael McCarthy, United States Air Force, Pentagon, Washington, DC; Richard Chapman and Allison Petrilla, IMS Inc., Alexandria, VA and Kerry L. Knox, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1943-278X.2012.00112.x

PMID

22934922

Abstract

Prescription drugs for many indications are labeled with warnings for potential risk of suicidal ideation or behavior. Exposures to prescription drugs labeled for adverse effects of suicidal behavior or ideation among 100 Air Force personnel who died by suicide between 2006 and 2009 are described. Air Force registry data were linked to administrative prescription data. Descriptive statistics illustrate utilization: 89 personnel had a prescription history, 35 filled at least one prescription labeled with a warning, 26 had antidepressants on hand at death, and 2 died by drug overdose. Most airmen were not exposed to any prescriptions labeled for risk of suicidal ideation or behavior prior to death by suicide.

Language: en