Suicide and Alcohol Attributable Deaths
These statistics from the CDC MMWR are startling. According to the CDC report, “from 2001–2005, an estimated annual 79,646 alcohol-attributable deaths and 2.3 million years of potential life lost were attributed to the harmful effects of excessive alcohol use. An estimated 5,800 alcohol-attributable deaths were associated annually with suicide.”
As you know EMS providers frequently encounter patients under the influence of alcohol, which is often an underlying cause or contributing factor in trauma, medical problem exacerbation, and behavioral emergencies. Unfortunately training on alcohol, suicide, and depression is scant for EMT and Paramedic students.
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1. Disease Conditions of Chronic Alcoholism
2. Suicide: deliberate death
3. Understanding Depression
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