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 alcoholics shows that the risk factors are all more frequently present in the suicides than the living alcoholics. Moreover, they act in a cumulative fashion: the greater the number of factors present, the greater the risk of suicide. The case histories describe how both alcoholism and its suicidal outcome span the ranges of age, sex, race and socioeconomic characteristics. This accessible work offers a broad understanding of the determinants and predictors of suicide in alcoholics, and indicates practical measures to prevent these suicides.

Suicide in Alcoholism

Self-Help

Murphy, George E.

Death & Grief

Oxford University Press

A collection of short stories--selected by the editors of the magazines in which they originally appeared--includes works by Margaret Atwood, Andre Dubus, John Gardner, and Trevanian

The Editor's Choice: New American Stories

Bantam]

Editors' Choice III

<p>A collection of short stories--selected by the editors of the magazines in which they originally appeared--includes works by Margaret Atwood, Andre Dubus, John Gardner, and Trevanian</p>

Literature & Fiction

United States

The Editor's Choice IV

Editor's Choice: New American Stories

EDITOR'S CHOICE V-4

Rounding Ballast Key

Poetry

Ampersand Pr

<p>The author, formerly a chief engineer for a major U.S. steamship company, recounts his experiences, and shares humorous recollections of his fellow crew members, officers, and passengers</p>

It Didn't Happen on My Watch

Biographies & Memoirs

Research Triangle Pub

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