A Korean hospital study found frequent psychotropic ingestion among interviewed self-poisoning patients. Its sample excluded some of the most medically severe presentations.
Of 384 analyzed self-poisoning patients, 179 had ingested psychotropics. The reported drug categories included 104 hypnotic ingestions and seventy-eight benzodiazepine ingestions, with alprazolam prominent among the latter.
These drug counts should retain their category definitions and possible multiple-drug context. They are not automatically mutually exclusive patient groups.
Patients unable to complete an appropriate psychiatric interview because of serious medical condition or death were excluded. The single suburban university-hospital setting also limits generalization.
Consequently, frequency in this sample cannot establish population prevalence or comparative fatality of benzodiazepines. The findings describe the substances recorded among eligible patients, together with associated clinical characteristics. Individual attribution still requires the ingestion history, toxicology, co-exposures, and clinical course rather than an inference from which drug appeared most often in the study.
Original analysis of the supplied journal article, identified as PMC4662176.