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Well, that makes sense. It reduces stress for a while and postpones suicides.

• DanBC 9y ago
  Alcohol drastically increases suicide rates and self harm rates. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jayne_Cooper/publication/8053710_Suicide_After_Deliberate_Self-Harm_A_4-Year_Cohort_Study/links/09e415087b907a2b13000000.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jayne_Cooper/publicatio... > Conclusions: The results highlight the importance in a suicide prevention strategy of early intervention after an episode of self-harm. Treatment should include attention to physical illness, alcohol problems, and living circumstances. Self-harm appears to confer a particularly high risk of suicide in female patients. http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhs/research/centreforsuicideprevention/nci/reports/2016-report.pdf http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhs/research/centrefor... > 11. Over half the patients who died by suicide had a history of alcohol or drug misuse. There were national differences, with alcohol misuse a more common antecedent of suicide in Scotland and Northern Ireland, drug misuse more common in Scotland. However, a much smaller group was in contact with specialist substance misuse services
  • delazeur 9y ago
    Your claim would be supported by evidence that the population of drinkers has higher suicide rates than the population of non-drinkers, which is notably different than evidence that people who commit suicide are likely to be drinkers.
  • prodmerc 9y ago
    Alcoholism (abuse/misuse/problems) increases suicide rates. As does caffeine overconsumption, which makes me want to punch those "caffeinated as fuck" T-shirt wearing (but against cannabis or amphetamines) people in the face.