Pediatric suicide attempts by poisoning on the rise, study says ...Middle East

The number of suspected suicide attempts by poisoning among children rose sharply between 2015 and 2020, recent research suggests.   University of Virginia researchers conducted a study based on cases reported to the National Poison Data System as “suspected suicides” that involved both attempted suicides and deaths by suicide. They found a 26 percent increase in suspected suicides among children ages 6 and 19 during the study period.  The over-the-counter pain killers ibuprofen and acetaminophen were the two most common substances used in the suspected pediatric attempted suicide cases, researchers found, adding that the self-poisoning attempts resulted in 276 deaths and 14,916 cas

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