The proportion of drug addicts among completed suicides

The issues of suicidal mortality of drug users are discussed. Comparison of the indices of the contingent of persons registered by substance abuse treatment services and those having completed the suicide revealed 64 cases of suicide committed by drug addicts. Of these, 63 - men, 1 - woman (the ratio is sharply shifted - M:W - 63:1, which is significantly different from the general population). The most frequent (64.0%) drug addicts with completed suicides were in the age group of 36-45 years. The mean age of opiate users was 42.7±2.6 years, users of synthetic psychostimulants - 37.1±2.9 years, which is also significantly lower than the mean age of suicides in the general population. All identified cases of suicide belong to the so-called “hard” methods. While dominated by self-strangulation (87.5%), cuts were documented less frequently (9.4%). No cases of intentional overdose were identified. The proportion of drug addicts in the total number of suicides in the Tyumen Region was in different years (2014-2018) of the study period from 3...