Pharmacists at higher risk of suicide than general population

[DEATH IS FREEDOM]

There are many methods of suicide but we all want to be tormented as little as possible. When someone wants to die, one take what is available. Pharmacists and nursing staff have access to medicines in their work. Many medications make the death process easier. According to researchers in the United States, pharmacists have higher risk of suicide than the general population. The most common means of suicide among pharmacists: 49.8 percent of cases involving firearms, 29.4 percent involving poisoning via benzodiazepines, antidepressants and opiods and 13 percent involving suffocation.

Pharmacists at higher risk of suicide than general population

 

[Mistiie]

Interesting, I wonder if pharmacists get into the profession depressed and work their way towards getting medicines just to do it or if it's the impulsiveness of some suicidal people that spontaneously develop it and happen to be chemists that makes them go CTB without too much thought??

 

[Meditation guide]

I can see why facing a lifetime of filling pill bottles and putting labels on them five days a week would be very depressing.

I knew a girl studying to be a pharmacist and she seemed to be excited to have access to a lot of drugs.

 

[Weltall]

There are many methods of suicide but we all want to be tormented as little as possible. When someone wants to die, one take what is available. Pharmacists and nursing staff have access to medicines in their work. Many medications make the death process easier. According to researchers in the United States, pharmacists have higher risk of suicide than the general population. The most common means of suicide among pharmacists: 49.8 percent of cases involving firearms, 29.4 percent involving poisoning via benzodiazepines, antidepressants and opiods and 13 percent involving suffocation.

Pharmacists at higher risk of suicide than general population

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It's interesting that the rates are higher for firearms for pharmacists, which they said lines up statistically with the general population.
I would have imagined higher rates via poisoning due to their ability of immediate access to controlled substance schedules.
Thank you for the awareness and article.

 

[BornHated]

It's interesting that the rates are higher for firearms for pharmacists, which they said lines up statistically with the general population.
I would have imagined higher rates via poisoning due to their ability of immediate access to controlled substance schedules.
Thank you for the awareness and article.

I guess they might prefer the immediacy of it. Poisoning takes some time and runs the risk of being found and interrupted. Gunshot is much faster and on average seems to run less pain- The brain doesn't have nociceptors (pain receptors).

 

[Weltall]

I guess they might prefer the immediacy of it. Poisoning takes some time and runs the risk of being found and interrupted. Gunshot is much faster and on average seems to run less pain- The brain doesn't have nociceptors (pain receptors).

True. These are people with high-level education. While I'm sure there was impulsiveness, they still probably had careful deliberation into the success rate of other methods.

 

[penguinl0v3s]

Do you mean benzo/opioid/SSRI mix? Bc why would a pharmacist OD on SSRI when it's painful and Benzo when it has high LD50?

 

[Weltall]

Do you mean benzo/opioid/SSRI mix? Bc why would a pharmacist OD on SSRI when it's painful and Benzo when it has high LD50?

The use of firearms was similar between pharmacists and the general population, but poisoning via benzodiazepines, antidepressants and opioids was more frequent among pharmacists.

They pulled that information from the article. That could be a journalistic error.

 

[Yaffle]

I'm not surprised firearms top the list but surprised pharmacists do.

A split second to beat their SI, no doubt with a little medicinal help, and no backing out.

Meanwhile, in Britain and other countries with tightly regulated firearms laws, the exit bag is the best we can hope for.

I long for an "off switch" method, over in an instant.

 

[lifeisbutadream]

The high firearm and suffocation percentage is surprising for people who are experts in drugs and also have access to them. I suppose the percentages would have been very different when pharmacists had access to N, and i suppose this also shows that there's no good pharmacological substitute for N that we don't know about. I'd be interested in knowing exactly what the 29.4% who used benzos, antidepressants, and opioids did, how they used them. Doctors have a very high suicide rate. What are their percentages?

 

[Yaffle]

The high firearm and suffocation percentage is surprising for people who are experts in drugs and also have access to them. I suppose the percentages would have been very different when pharmacists had access to N, and i suppose this also shows that there's no good pharmacological substitute for N that we don't know about. I'd be interested in knowing exactly what the 29.4% who used benzos, antidepressants, and opioids did, how they used them. Doctors have a very high suicide rate. What are their percentages?

Exactly this, I bet it was a high N percentage when available

 

[FuneralCry]

Those who have access to lethal drugs/medications are fortunate. I envy those who are gone as now they are eternally free from all future suffering.

 

[Homo erectus]

Does it mean that the availability of extra methods does not increase suicide numbers? They don't choose the methods readily available to them.