Mood disorders and suicide: pilot study on postmortem toxicologic evidence and adherence to psychiatric therapy by determining blood levels of medications.

ABSTRACT: Suicide is one of the leading causes of death today, and among all mental illness, mood disorders account for one of the main risk factors. It is well known and proven that suicides are very common among people undergoing treatment and prescribed psychiatric medication. So far, however, there have only been a few studies dealing with this particular phenomenon. For this reason, autopsy patients who died by suicide, suffered from a mood disorder, and were known to be taking psychiatric medication at the time of death were selected for this study. The blood and urine samples taken during the autopsy underwent toxicological analysis and the results were compared with the prescribed therapy. A total of 22 people were included in the study: 12 presenting with depression and 10 with bipolar diso

SUBMITTER: Tambuzzi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11732864 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature