Suicide in Alcoholism

by George E. Murphy

Alcoholics commit about 25% of the more than 30,000 suicides per year in the U.S. This unique, revealing study discusses 50 actual cases of alcoholics who took their lives. The first part of the book covers the background of the study, the method of investigation, and the life histories. This leads to the identification of seven risk factors for suicide in alcoholics, none of them acute. Comparing those findings to the same factors in groups of living...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195071530
• ISBN13: 9780195071535
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.6" x 6.4"