@article{ref1,
title="Risk factors for suicide in substance-related disorders",
journal="Psychiatrische Praxis",
year="2006",
author="Schneider, Birke and Georgi, Klaus and Weber, B. and Schnabel, Axel and Ackermann, Hanns and Wetterling, Tilman",
volume="33",
number="2",
pages="81-87",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To assess the contribution of sociodemographic and psychopathologic predictors for suicide in alcohol-related disorders and in substance-related disorders in general and to examine the constellations of risk factors for suicide. METHODS: Out of 163 suicides (using psychological autopsy method) and 396 population-based control persons, 67 suicides and 67 controls with substance-related disorders (DSM-IV; alcohol-related disorders: suicides: n = 36, controls: n = 27) were assessed. RESULTS: Affective disorders, suffering from substance dependence, and low education independently predicted increased suicide risk in alcohol-related disorders as well as in substance-related disorders in general, severe nicotine consumption only in alcohol-related disorders. CONCLUSIONS: There are common risk factors for suicide in alcoholism and substance-related disorders in general. Effective suicide prevention strategies must include a focus on substance dependence as well as on affective disorders.",
language="",
issn="0303-4259",
doi="10.1055/s-2005-866858",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2005-866858"
}