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SUICIDE: COST TO THE NATION |
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- Suicide takes the lives of more than 30,000 Americans every year.
- Every 18 minutes another life is lost to suicide.
- Every day 80 Americans take their own lives and over 1,900 Americans visit Emergency Departments for self-inflicted injury (National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, total 706,000).
- Suicide is now the 11th leading cause of death in Americans.
- For every two victims of homicide in the U.S. there are three persons who take their own lives.
- There are now twice as many deaths due to suicide as to HIV/AIDS.
- Between 1952 and 1995, the incidence of suicide among adolescents and young adults nearly tripled.
- In the month prior to their suicide, 75% of elderly persons had visited a physician.
- Over half of all suicides occur in adult men, aged 25-65.
- Many who attempt suicide never seek professional care.
- Males are four times more likely to die from suicide than are females.
- More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia and influenza, and chronic lung disease, combined.
- Incidence and costs of hospital-admitted injuries (including attempted suicide) in certain states.
- Estimates of alcohol-attributable youth suicide costs in U.S. States.
- Cost of completed and medically treated youth suicides.
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