Alcohol, suicide and mental health
- Alcohol-related disorders were the third most common reason for admission to Irish psychiatric hospitals between 1996 and 2005
- Alcohol use is often a factor in suicidal behaviour. In 2006/2007 alcohol was a factor in 41% of all cases of deliberate self-harm
- One Irish study of people from three counties who died as a result of suicide, found that more than half had alcohol in their blood
