Alcohol Consumption, Alcoholics Anonymous Membership, and Suicide Mortality Rates, Ontario, 1968-1991

Mann, Robert E.; Zalcman, Rosely Flam; Smart, Reginald G.; Rush, Brian; Suurvali, Helen

doi:10.15288/jsa.2006.67.445

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“…2003), the finding that changes in per capita consumption only affect female suicide rates in the U.S. is rather unexpected. The observed gender difference in the alcohol effect on suicide accords, however, with results of Ramstedt's (2005) and Mann et al's (2006) studies of Canadian data. They, too, found stronger alcohol effects on female suicide rates whereas the effects among males tended to be weaker and/or nonsignificant.…”

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confidence: 47%

“…One possible explanation could be that the present observation period has seen the emergence of some confounding factor (or several factors) which tends to mask the link between alcohol and suicide. One such factor could be increased/improved alcoholism treatment, which has been analyzed and discussed by Holder and Parker (1992) in relation to changes in per capita consumption and liver cirrhosis mortality rates and by Mann et al (2006) in relation to per capita consumption and suicide rates in Ontario. Another factor which is often brought up in discussions on recent declines in suicide rates, is the growing use of antidepressants (see e.g., McKeown, Caffe, & Schultz, 2006 and Grunebaum, Ellis, Shuhua, Oquendo, & Mann, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Per Capita Alcohol Consumption and Suicide Rates in the U.S., 1950–2002

Landberg

2009

Suicide & Life Threat Behav

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The aim of this paper was to estimate how suicide rates in the United States are affected by changes in per capita consumption during the post-war period. The analysis included Annual suicide rates and per capita alcohol consumption data (total and beverage specific) for the period 1950-2002. Gender- and age-specific models were estimated using the Box-Jenkins technique for time series analysis. No significant estimate was found for males. For females the total alcohol estimate (0.059) was significant at the 10% level whereas the spirits estimate was significant with an effect of 0.152. The results imply that a change in US per capita consumption would result in a change in female suicide rates, whereas the male rates not would be affected.

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confidence: 47%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Per Capita Alcohol Consumption and Suicide Rates in the U.S., 1950–2002

Landberg

2009

Suicide & Life Threat Behav

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“…Alcohol has been linked to increased country-level suicide rates in Europe, Canada (Hintikka et al, 1999;Inelmen, Gazerro, Inelmen, Sergi, & Manzato, 2010;Landberg, 2008;Mann, Zalcman, Smart, Rush, & Suurvali, 2006;Ramstedt, 2001) and in Japan (Nakaya et al, 2007). Alcohol is also thought to be associated with higher rates of suicide in some Indigenous groups and in the Pacific, although empirical data on this relationship is scarce (De Leo, Milner, & Sveticic, 2012;Laliberté & Tousignant, 2009;Rubinstein, 1992).…”

Section: Alcohol (N = 17)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Social-Environmental Factors and Suicide Mortality: A Narrative Review of over 200 Articles

Milner¹,

Hjelmeland²,

Arensman³

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Suicide mortality in a population has long been thought to be sensitive to social, economic and cultural contexts. This review examined research on the relationship between social-environmental variables and suicide mortality published over a ten-year period. The main areas covered in the review included: the economy and income, unemployment, relationship status, fertility and birth rates, female participation in the workforce, religion, migration, location of residence, modernisation, media reporting, alcohol, and access to suicide methods. Results of the review indicated that rates of suicide mortality (deaths per 100,000 in a population) were sensitive to a wide range of social factors. There were relatively stable associations noted between divorce and unemployment with suicide mortality, while many of the reported associations between suicide mortality and other social variables (such as religion, fertility and female participation in the workforce) were influenced by contextual factors and time. These findings indicate the importance of considering the relationship between social factors and suicide as dynamic phenomena.

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“…Linehan et al (1999) have shown that specific antisuicide therapy can have an effect in suicidal persons with substance problems. Although no randomized trials of suicide prevention have been done using addictions treatment, large, uncontrolled cohort studies have found markedly decreased rates of suicide attempts pre-and postaddictions treatment (Karageorge, 2001) or after attending Alcoholics Anonymous (Mann, Zalcman, Smart, Rush, & Suurvali, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%