Suicide Rates between Methamphetamine Users who inject versus Non-Injectors
Received Date: Mar 20, 2018 / Accepted Date: Apr 11, 2018 / Published Date: Apr 18, 2018
Abstract
Methamphetamine abuse has created a continuous wave of destruction and disparity throughout communities as its widespread usage increases on a momentary basis. With such proliferated abuse comes an invasion of poverty, crime, addiction, prostitution, venereal diseases and death; many of which occur by suicide. Whether its overdose, self-inflicted wounds or mere tragedy, death seems to be synonymous with methamphetamine abuse. Although somewhat limited, the previous research on methamphetamine has primarily focused on the physiological, neurological and social aspects of abuse. Furthermore, despite methamphetamine’s growing popularity, researchers have failed to develop a clear understanding of the inherent differences between users who inject versus noninjectors. Therefore, this study chose to explore the differences in suicide attempts between methamphetamine users who inject versus non-injecting users, while also examining additional demographic variables. The results of this study suggest intravenous methamphetamine use and suicide are strongly related; however, they have a peculiar relationship in the sense that intravenous users, who attempted suicide, were likely to make their first suicide attempt prior to their initial injection.
Keywords: Methamphetamine abuse; Suicide attempts; Injectors and non-injectors
Citation: Hypse JD (2018) Suicide Rates between Methamphetamine Users who inject versus Non-Injectors. J Addict Res Ther 9: 359. Doi: 10.4172/2155-6105.1000359
Copyright: ©2018 Hypse J. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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