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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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