Discerning suicide in drug intoxication deaths: Paucity and primacy of suicide notes and psychiatric history

摘要

ObjectiveA paucity of corroborative psychological and psychiatric evidence may be inhibiting detection of drug intoxication suicides in the United States. We evaluated the relative importance of suicide notes and psychiatric history in the classification of suicide by drug intoxication versus firearm (gunshot wound) plus hanging/suffocation—the other two major, but overtly violent methods.