Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「America’s mental-health crisis drove suicides to a record-high number in 2022. ⁠ ⁠ Nearly 50,000 people in the U.S. lost their lives to suicide last year, according to a provisional tally from the National Center for Health Statistics. The agency said the final count would likely be higher. The suicide rate of 14.3 deaths per 100,000 people reached its highest level since 1941. ⁠ ⁠ The record reflects broad struggles to help people in mental distress following a pandemic that killed more than one million in the U.S., upended the economy and left many isolated and afraid. A shortage of healthcare workers, an increasingly toxic illicit drug supply and the ubiquity of firearms have facilitated the rise in suicides, mental-health experts said.⁠ ⁠ Men 75 and older had the highest suicide rate last year at nearly 44 per 100,000 people, double that for people 15-24. Firearm-related suicides become more common with age as people experience declining health, the loss of loved ones and social isolation. While women have consistently been found to have suicidal thoughts more commonly, men are four times as likely to commit suicide. ⁠ ⁠ There is some evidence that efforts to reach people in crisis are helping. Suicide rates for children 10-14 and people 15-24 declined by 18% and 9%, respectively, last year from 2021, bringing suicide rates in those groups back to prepandemic levels.⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in our bio.」11月30日 0時30分