Yellow September special: suicide and chemical dependency
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25118/issn.2965-1832.2017.745Keywords:
suicide prevention, suicide awareness, suicide and chemical dependency, drug addictionAbstract
The month of September marks ABP's biggest campaign: yellow September, which raises awareness about suicide prevention. All ABP TV programs will be special, focused on this theme. This week, the theme brings to the discussion suicide and chemical dependency. Substance use disorders are the second major mental illness associated with cases of death by suicide, corresponding to 22.4% of episodes – second only to mood disorders. This represents about 200,000 deaths per year caused by suicide as a result of the use of psychoactive substances.

Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Conference Proceedings Volume
Section
Categories
License
Copyright (c) 2017 Antônio Geraldo da Silva, Fábio Gomes de Matos e Souza, Valdir Ribeiro Campos

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.