Patterns of medicine use in the year prior to death by suicide: an Australian population-based case series study
Dispensing of antidepressants and benzodiazepines increased more rapidly closer to date of death, regardless of medicine involvement in death. This suggests these changes may reflect worsening symptoms or increased help seeking and that the method of death by suicide may be due to greater means access. However, findings need to be interpreted with caution as our analyses were performed on aggregate data and may not reflect person-level changes.
