Download document: Insights from experience: alcohol and suicide (full report)
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Drinking alcohol can increase someone's risk of dying by suicide. This is connected to both the impact of long-term alcohol use and the immediate effects of drinking.
With our partners in the Suicide Prevention Consortium, we have been exploring what the relationship between alcohol and suicide looks like for people living in England, in their own words.
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We shared surveys with people who have lived experience of suicide, to understand more about their relationships with alcohol. We hope that by sharing their insights we can encourage the Westminster Government and healthcare services to make changes that will help people to be better supported.
My hope is that professionals start to see that alcohol use is often the result of an underlying issue and not simply tell people to sober up without offering further support for how to deal with the root cause of the problem.
Lived experience survey respondent