[Epidemiology of attempted suicide and overdose in drug dependent patients]

48 fatalities (11 female, 37 male) among drug addicts are registered in Vienna in 1988. 96 committed suicides and 401 suicide attempts are reported among young Viennese in 1987. In order to examine the connection between suicide, parasuicide and drug addiction at the drug out patient clinic of the Psychiatric University Hospital of Vienna, 223 patients were investigated in February 1989.