Tentativa de suicídio com o uso de medicamentos registrados pelo CIT-GO nos anos de 2003 e 2004

Abstract

Accidental ou proposital administratrion of potentially toxic agents is related to severe intoxications. Considering all classes of intoxications (minor to severe) the majority are caused by drugs, like as antidepressant, analgesic, anti-anxiety and anticonvulsant agents. The suicide attempt is very common, instead of clinical or forensic misdiagnostic of such psychiatric disturbs. In this work we evaluated and compared suicide attempt, caused by medicine ingestion, recorded on Center of Toxicological Information of the Goias State (CITGO) over the years 2003 and 2004. In such period, 597 cases of poisoning were related to medicines. In the period of 2003, 237 cases had been notified, while that in the year of 2004 had been notified 360 cases, 1.5 times more than the previous year. The psychiatric drugs, analgesics and non-steroidal antinflamatory drugs (NSAIDS) had been responsible for more than 60% of all the cases of suicide attempts. About 80% of the medecine suicide attempt cases it occurred in the feminine sex, mainly in the age range of 21 the 30 years, with low index of lethality (0,84 - 2.49%).