TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1989//
TI  - Substances involved in fatal drug overdoses in Brisbane, 1979-1987
JO  - Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica. Supplementum
A1  - Cantor, C. H.
SP  - 69
EP  - 71
VL  - 354
IS  - 
N2  - 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> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0065-1591
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -