[Addiction and suicide (author's transl)].

After a survey of the particularly great risk of suicide among alcoholics and drug addicts, the psychopathologically common base of suicidal tendencies and addiction which arise from the advances of the theory of narcism are presented. Comparative clinical investigations in two groups of patients who had attempted suicide (with and without alcoholism) show that every 4th suicidal patient has alcohol problems. Alcoholic patients present a more pathological self-rating, they relatively frequently live alone in poor accommodation and even considerably worse social and economic conditions.