Nevada Has 3rd Highest Suicide Rate in the US and More than a Third by Young People
Alex Newman’s article, “Struggling with suicide” points out a sobering statistic: College students die from accidents and suicides, and each year, young people ages 15-24 kill themselves. About 1 out of 4 of those young people are college students.
When a Nevada college student killed himself, the state declared this a public health crisis.
American Association of Suicidology is an organization for understanding and preventing suicides, and released figures that showed Nevada has the 3rd highest suicide rates in the US in its 2003 data. Wyoming is #1 and Montana is #2. You can click here to get the PDF statistics.
Alex’s article includes helpful resources for warning signs, statistics, and speaking with someone about suicide. Many of these come from a compilation of resources including information from AAS.
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