Substance-Induced Psychosis Linked to Increased Risk of Suicide Attempt

Experiencing substance-induced psychosis may raise the risk of suicide attempt, astudy inAddictionhas found. Substance-induced psychosis, also known as substance-induced psychotic disorder, is a form of psychosis brought on by using or withdrawing from alcohol or other substances and usually dissipates within a month of stopping substance use.Carsten Hjorth øj, Ph.D., M.Sc., of the Copenhagen Research Center for Mental Health and the University of Copenhagen and colleagues analyzed data from 5,806,700 people aged 13 years or older who lived in Denmark from January 1, 1995, to August 10, 2017. The researchers followed the individuals until the individu als had a suicide attempt, had a first psychotic disorder (except for first substance-induced psychosis), died, or emigrated, whichever came first. None of the individuals had a suicide attempt prior to the study.Overall, 8,900 (78.8% males) individuals were diagnosed with a substance-induced psychosis, and of those, 740 had a suicide attempt during follow-up. In general, people who had experienced substance-induced psychosis had 13.4 times the risk of having a suicide attempt than the general population. After the researchers adjusted for other psychiatric diagnoses, the risk of suicide attempt in people who had experienced substance-induced psychosis was 3.5 times that of the general population.Within 20 years, approximately 15% of individuals with a substance-induced psychosis had a suicide attempt.Compared with the general ...
Source: Psychiatr News - Category: Psychiatry Tags: alcohol Carsten Hjorth øj cocaine opioids risk of suicide attempt sedatives substance-induced psychosis University of Copenhagen Source Type: research