Suicides

The rate of cancer-related suicides in the U.S. declined considerably in the past few decades, results of a population-based retrospective study published in Translational Psychiatry showed.

In the United States, 41,116 people died by suicide in 2021, making suicides the leading type of violent death that year, MMWR data showed.

Adolescent suicides increased by all methods — including firearms — from 1999 to 2020, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Gun death rates persisted at high levels in 2022, particularly among Black youth, and gun-related suicides increased 1.6% from 2021, reaching an all-time high, according to provisional CDC data.

An analysis of poisoning-related suicides in Australia identified several substances to be careful about prescribing, while finding that “many medicines are present at lower levels,” even in non-poisoning suicides.

Youth suicides unexpectedly declined in the United States during school closures for COVID-19, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open¸ which found a potential association between suicidality and the school calendar.