Confronting Death From Drug Self-Intoxication (DDSI): Prevention Through a Better Definition

Abstract

Ian R.?H. Rockett is with the Department of Epidemiology, West Virginia University, Morgantown. Gordon S. Smith is with the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore. Eric D. Caine is with the Injury Control Research Center for Suicide Prevention, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY. Nestor D. Kapusta is with the Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Randy L. Hanzlick is with the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. G. Luke Larkin is with the Department of Surgery, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Charles P.?E. Naylor is with the Forensic and Scientific Services, Department of Health, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Kurt B. Nolte is with the Office of the Medical Investigator, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque. Ted R. Miller is with the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD. Sandra L. Putnam is with Social Solutions International, Silver Spring, MD. Diego De Leo is with the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. John Kleinig is with the Department of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Steven Stack is with the Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Knox H. Todd is with the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. David W. Fraser is with the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia.