Poisoning and Self-Injury Mortality: Can Reclassification of Drug Deaths Lead to Improved Prevention?

February 17, 2017

News Type:  Weekly Spark, Weekly Spark Announcement

The Injury Control Research Center for Suicide Prevention (ICRC-S) is hosting a webinar on poisoning and self-injury mortality. It will be led by presenters Ian Rockett, professor of epidemiology at the West Virginia University School of Public Health, and Eric Caine, director of ICRC-S and co-director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide at the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Psychiatry. Topics will include suicide misclassification, death from drug self-intoxication, and efforts to prevent self-injury mortality. The webinar will take place on March 1 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. ET