Suicide among heroin users: rates, risk factors and methods
- 31 October 2002
- Vol. 97 (11) , 1383-1394
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1360-0443.2002.00214.x
Abstract
The current paper examines critically the literature on suicide rates, suicide risk factors and methods employed for suicide among heroin users, and compares these to those of the general po...Keywords
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