La ingestión de fármacos como causa de suicidios y tentativas de suicidios en Galicia

Abstract

We carried a retrospective study of suicides and suicide attempts by therapeutic drug ingestion during the year 1998 in the sanitary area of Santiago de Compostela. It was made of 167 cases, what represents an incidence of 35,3/100.000 inhabitants and the 0,2% of the total admissions through the emergency room during that time. The most part of them were women, 122 (73%) and the average age was 29,7 years. The therapeutic drug used most frequently, by clinic suspect and also toxicologic confirmation were the benzodiacepines and in second place the antidepressants but the antidepressants causes the most part of the admissions to intensive care unit. In almost a quarter of analysis (24,5%) were founded several toxics implicated being the most frequent combination alcohol and benzodiacepines. Only two deaths were registrated, one of them caused by digoxine in the emergency room, and the other one by antidepressants after being admitted in the intensive care unit.