Suicide rate for girls rises
p2pnet news | Off Topic:- The suicide rate for girls aged between 10 and 14 spiked by 76% in 2004, say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Quoted by the Los Angeles Times, the CDC says where girls in this age range once preferred to use guns to kill themselves, “suffocation and hanging” are now the methods of choice.
The rate among older boys and girls, “also increased substantially, driving the overall suicide rate among 10- to 24-year-olds to an 8 percent increase in 2004, the largest jump in 15 years,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
The rate had declined by 28% between 1990 and 2003, before the jump in 2004, says the story.
Why the increase?
“Some experts attributed the increase in 2004 to a drop in prescriptions for antidepressants following widespread publicity in 2003 linking the drugs to increases in suicidal thoughts in young people,” says the L.A. Times, adding:
“The Food and Drug Administration responded by requiring the drugs to carry a black-box warning. The debate about the effect of the warning has been simmering for more than a year.
“The overall 2004 increase in suicide rates was previously known, but the new study provided the first breakdown by age and gender. It also provided new data about the methods used to commit suicide.”
Also See:
Los Angeles Times – After years of decline, youth suicide rates rise, September 6, 2007
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