Parental prescription opioid use linked to increased child suicide risk

A new study published in journal JAMA Psychiatry suggests that children of parents who chronically use prescription opioids have an increased risk of suicide.

The study authors examined 121,306 parents who either did or did not chronically use prescription opioids, defined by whether they had prescriptions filled for more than 365 days of opioids, and their children ages 10-19.

About 0.14 percent of children whose parents did not use opioids attempted to kill themselves. That number more than doubled to 0.37 percent for children with parents that used prescription opioids.

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