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Suicidal Behavior and Club Drugs in Young Adults
Psychoactive drugs play a significant role in suicidality when used for intentional overdose or, more frequently, when the intoxication leads to disinhibition and alterations in judgment, thereby making suicide more likely. In this study, we investigated suicidality prevalence among drug users and e...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8069608/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33921484 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11040490 |
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author | Martinotti, Giovanni Schiavone, Stefania Negri, Attilio Vannini, Chiara Trabace, Luigia De Berardis, Domenico Pettorruso, Mauro Sensi, Stefano L. Di Giannantonio, Massimo |
author_facet | Martinotti, Giovanni Schiavone, Stefania Negri, Attilio Vannini, Chiara Trabace, Luigia De Berardis, Domenico Pettorruso, Mauro Sensi, Stefano L. Di Giannantonio, Massimo |
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description | Psychoactive drugs play a significant role in suicidality when used for intentional overdose or, more frequently, when the intoxication leads to disinhibition and alterations in judgment, thereby making suicide more likely. In this study, we investigated suicidality prevalence among drug users and evaluated the differences in suicide ideation, taking into account the substance categories and the association of suicide ideation intensity with other psychiatric symptoms. Subjects admitted to the Can Misses Hospital’s psychiatry ward in Ibiza were recruited during summer openings of local nightclubs for four consecutive years starting in 2015. The main inclusion criterium was an intake of psychoactive substances during the previous 24 h. The Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) was used to assess the suicide risk. Suicidality was present in 39% of the study cohort. Suicide Ideation Intensity overall and in the previous month was higher in users of opioids and in general of psychodepressors compared to psychostimulants or psychodysleptics. Suicidality was not correlated with alterations in any of the major psychopathological scales employed to assess the psychiatric background of the study subjects. The presence of high levels of suicidality did not specifically correlate with any major symptom indicative of previous or ongoing psychopathological alterations. These findings suggest that impulsivity and loss of self-control may be determinants of the increased suicidality irrespectively of any major ongoing psychiatric background. |
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spelling | pubmed-80696082021-04-26 Suicidal Behavior and Club Drugs in Young Adults Martinotti, Giovanni Schiavone, Stefania Negri, Attilio Vannini, Chiara Trabace, Luigia De Berardis, Domenico Pettorruso, Mauro Sensi, Stefano L. Di Giannantonio, Massimo Brain Sci Article Psychoactive drugs play a significant role in suicidality when used for intentional overdose or, more frequently, when the intoxication leads to disinhibition and alterations in judgment, thereby making suicide more likely. In this study, we investigated suicidality prevalence among drug users and evaluated the differences in suicide ideation, taking into account the substance categories and the association of suicide ideation intensity with other psychiatric symptoms. Subjects admitted to the Can Misses Hospital’s psychiatry ward in Ibiza were recruited during summer openings of local nightclubs for four consecutive years starting in 2015. The main inclusion criterium was an intake of psychoactive substances during the previous 24 h. The Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) was used to assess the suicide risk. Suicidality was present in 39% of the study cohort. Suicide Ideation Intensity overall and in the previous month was higher in users of opioids and in general of psychodepressors compared to psychostimulants or psychodysleptics. Suicidality was not correlated with alterations in any of the major psychopathological scales employed to assess the psychiatric background of the study subjects. The presence of high levels of suicidality did not specifically correlate with any major symptom indicative of previous or ongoing psychopathological alterations. These findings suggest that impulsivity and loss of self-control may be determinants of the increased suicidality irrespectively of any major ongoing psychiatric background. MDPI 2021-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8069608/ /pubmed/33921484 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11040490 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Martinotti, Giovanni Schiavone, Stefania Negri, Attilio Vannini, Chiara Trabace, Luigia De Berardis, Domenico Pettorruso, Mauro Sensi, Stefano L. Di Giannantonio, Massimo Suicidal Behavior and Club Drugs in Young Adults |
title | Suicidal Behavior and Club Drugs in Young Adults |
title_full | Suicidal Behavior and Club Drugs in Young Adults |
title_fullStr | Suicidal Behavior and Club Drugs in Young Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Suicidal Behavior and Club Drugs in Young Adults |
title_short | Suicidal Behavior and Club Drugs in Young Adults |
title_sort | suicidal behavior and club drugs in young adults |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8069608/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33921484 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11040490 |
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