Associations of Despair With Suicidality and Substance Misuse Among Young Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Deaths of despair is a term that has recently been used to describe the increases in premature mortality from suicides, drug overdoses (particularly from opiates), and alcohol-related liver disease among US adults. Despite the use of the term despair, its role in these causes of premature death has not been empirically tested.

Objective

To test whether despair among young adults is associated with suicidal thoughts and behavior, alcohol misuse, and drug misuse.

Design, setting, and participants

The Great Smoky Mountains Study is a Southeastern, mixed urban-rural population-based cohort study conducted from November 10, 1992, to September 22, 2015. A total of 1420 participants originally 9, 11, and 13 years of age were followed up 11 times to 30 years of age

SUBMITTER: Copeland WE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7312388 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature