National Suicide Week September 5, to 11

Facts you should know:         

This information is a little late but I had a training this week so the information is new to me and frankly it can never be too late to save a life.

 Suicide

• Suicide was the tenth leading cause of death of all ages in 2013.
• There were 41, 149 suicides in 2013 in the United States-a rate of 12.6 per 100,000 is equal to 113 suicides each day or one every 13 minutes.  
• Based on data about suicides in 16 National Violent Death Reporting System states in 2010, 33.4% of suicide decedents tested positive for alcohol, 23.8% for antidepressants, and 20.0% for opiates, including heroin and prescription pain killers.  
• Suicide results in an estimated $51 billion in combined medical and work loss costs.
• Among students in grades 9-12 in the U.S. during 2013:4 • 17.0% of students seriously considered attempting suicide in the previous 12 months (22.4% of females and 11.6% of males).                          
•  13.6% of students made a plan about how they would attempt suicide in the previous 12 months (16.9% of females and 10.3% of males). 
•  8.0% of students attempted suicide one or more times in the previous 12 months (10.6% of females and 5.4% of males).  
• 2.7 students made a suicide attempt that resulted in an injury, poisoning, or an overdose that required m
• Medical attention (3.6% of females and 1.8% of males).

Nonfatal  Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior

• Among adults aged ≥18 years in the United States during 2013.
• An estimated 9.3 million adults (3.9% of the adult U.S. population) reported having suicidal thoughts in the past year.  
• The percentage of adults having serious thoughts abou• Firearms are the most commonly used method of suicide among males (56.9%). suicide was highest among adults aged 18 to 25 (7.4%), followed by Males take their own lives at nearly four times the rate of females and represent 77.9% of all suicides.adults aged 26 to 49 (4.0%), then by adults aged 50 or older (2.7%).
• An estimated 2.7 million people (1.1% ) made a plan about how they would attempt suicide in the past year. • The percentage of adults who made a suicide plan in the past year was higher among adults aged 18 to 25 (2.5%) than among adults aged 26 to 49 (1.35%) and those aged 50 or older (0.6%).   
• An estimated 1.3 million adults aged 18 or older (0.6%) attempted suicide in the past year. Among these adults who attempted suicide, 1.1 million also reported making suicide plans (0.2 million did not make suicide plans).                                                                                             

Gender Disparities

• Males take their own lives at nearly four times the rate of females and represent 77.9% of all suicides.
• Females are more likely than males to have suicidal thoughts.
• Suicide is the seventh leading cause of death for males and the fourteenth leading cause for females.
• Firearms are the most commonly used method of suicide among males (56.9%).
• Poisoning is the most common method of suicide for females (34.8%).

Reference:

http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/suicide-datasheet-a.PDF