The role of firearm and alcohol availability in firearm suicide: A population-based weighted case-control study.

ABSTRACT: Firearm availability has been linked to firearm self-harm, but the joint relationship with alcohol availability, while supported by theory, has not been examined. This study sought to quantify the separate and joint relations of community firearm and alcohol availability with individual-level risk of (fatal and nonfatal) firearm self-harm. We conducted a case-control study of California residents, 2005-2015, using statewide mortality, hospital, firearm transfer, and alcohol license data. We estimated monthly marginal risk differences per 100,000 in the overall population and in white men aged 50+ under various hypothetical changes to firearm and alcohol availability and assessed additive interactions using case-control-weighted g-computation. In the overall population, non-pawn shop firear

SUBMITTER: Pear VA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10153632 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature