Suicide and unintentional poisoning mortality trends in the United States, 1987-2006: two unrelated phenomena?

• Main Authors: Frost James L (Author), Ducatman Alan M (Author), Stack Steven (Author), De Leo Diego (Author), Hobbs Gerry (Author), Rockett Ian RH (Author), Kapusta Nestor D (Author), Walker Rheeda L (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2010-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Two counter trends in injury mortality have been separately reported in the US in recent times - a declining suicide rate and a rapidly rising unintentional poisoning mortality rate. Poisoning suicides are especially difficult to det...