Hypnotics drugs increase the risk of suicide

December 14, 2011

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Swedish scientists working at the University of Gothenburg, came to a disappointing conclusion. As it turned out, reception sedatives , and hypnotics   may increase the risk siutsida , And this applies both to young people and people in adulthood.

Scientists have conducted a lot of research, which was attended by 100 people of different ages: teenagers, middle-aged and elderly people, to commit suicide. As it turned out, several times more likely to attempt suicide committed people taking sedatives and opiates because the insomniacs or had any trouble sleeping.

Still, scientists have yet remain at a loss: the possibility of receiving sedation is a consequence, not a cause of insomnia. This is due to the fact that in almost all cases, the potential suicide have certain deviation psychic e, which can be linked directly with insomnia and sleep problems. Nevertheless, the risk of what medications to improve sleep are the cause of suicide is very high, the researchers say.