2.41 SAMHSA report indicates one in twelve adolescent drug-related hospital emergency department visits involved a suicide attempt
According to a study conducted by SAMHSA’s Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), more than one in every twelve (8.8 percent) drug-related hospital emergency department visits made by an adolescent (ages 12 to 17) in 2008 was a suicide attempt. This was double the rate found among cases involving those age 25 and older (4.4 percent). Almost three of every four visits for drug-related suicide attempts among adolescents were made by females. While there was evidence of follow-up care in 77% of these cases, there were significant differences in the level of such care. DAWN is a public health surveillance system that monitors drug-related hospital emergency department visits reported throughout the nation.
For more information http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k10/DAWN001/SuicideAttemptsHTML.pdf