@article{ref1,
title="Substances involved in fatal drug overdoses in Brisbane, 1979-1987",
journal="Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica. Supplementum",
year="1989",
author="Cantor, C. H.",
volume="354",
number="",
pages="69-71",
abstract="Suicide rates may be reduced by decreasing the availability, cultural acceptance or lethality of certain methods of suicide. With these principles in mind fatal overdoses in Brisbane 1979-1987 were surveyed for substances involved. Psychotropic agents, especially barbiturates predominated. Chloral hydrate was far the most commonly implicated single compound. A case is put for curtailing the availability of barbiturates and chloral hydrate. This combined with increasing detection of depressed persons may lead to a further rise in overdoses involving antidepressants which as a group require reduction in their lethality.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0065-1591",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}