Opiate addiction and suicidal behaviors
- 1 September 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 136 (9) , 1187-1189
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.9.1187
Abstract
The hypothesis that people addicted to opiates manifest more psychopathology in areas that were identified as predictors for high risk of suicidal behavior than do normal control subjects was tested. Patients [278] in a methadone maintenance program and normal control subjects [207] were given the Index of Potential Suicide (IPS). Using discriminate function analysis, 87% of 100 of the methadone patients and 98% of 100 of the normal control subjects were correctly identified on the basis of the IPS data.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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