Teens: Drug suicide attempts are on the rise

It was the Tox Info Suisse foundation that made a really significant increase in suicide attempts among teenagers. It seems that the number has doubled, especially among under 15. In the first three months of 2021, the number of consultations about suicide attempts to the emergency number 145 grew by 70%. This is confirmed by making a comparison with 2016-2020.

For Tox Info, young people often use painkillers readily available in pharmacies such as paracetamol and ibuprofen. Paracetamol intoxications are carriers of liver failure if left untreated. It is advisable to be hospitalized regularly. Social contacts due to the Coronavirus have declined sharply. A fact that weighs heavily on children and adolescents. The suicide attempts only took place from the fall of 2020 and not in the spring of the same year, during the first incarceration at home. In short, there were a total of 39,584 telephone consultations, 100 calls per day. According to Tox Info Suisse, the number of visits to the site has increased by a third.

79% of intoxications are of an accidental type in children under five years of age. In 2021, the foundation registered 260 serious poisonings and 13 deaths, all adults. In most cases drugs or narcoticsbut in one case a plant was deadly.