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More Americans Now Commit Suicide Than Die in Car Crashes as Miserable Economy Takes Its Toll
The Daily Mail (UK.) ^ | 22 September 2012 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 09/22/2012 10:38:53 PM PDT by DogByte6RER

$56 million suicide prevention programme launched as study reveals more Americans take their own lives than die in car crashes

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Suicide is a bigger killer than car crashes, according to an alarming new study.

The number of people dying from suicide has drastically increased, while car accident deaths haven lessened, making suicide the leading cause of injury death.

Suicides via falls or poisoning have risen significantly and experts fear there could be en more going unrecognised, specifically in cases of overdose.

'Suicides are terribly under-counted,' said Ian Rockett, author of the study, published on Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health.

'I think the problem is much worse than official data would lead us to believe. We have a situation that has gotten out of hand.'

He added that his goal is to see the same attention paid to other injuries as has been paid to traffic injuries.

The results were compiled using National Centre for Health Statistics data gathered from 2000 to 2009.

Researchers noted a 25 per cent decrease in car accident deaths, medicalxpress.com reported, while deaths from falls rose 71 per cent, from poisoning 128 per cent and from suicide 15 per cent.

Higher automobile standards were credited for the traffic deaths drop, with harsher penalties for underage drinking and failing to wear seat belts named as contributing factors.

Previous research has suggested that suicide rates go up during recessions and times of economic crisis.

'Economic problems can impact how people feel about themselves and their futures as well as their relationships with family and friends,' Feijun Luo of CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention told Bloomberg.

'Prevention strategies can focus on individuals, families, neighborhoods or entire communities to reduce risk factors.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 09/22/2012 10:39:02 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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More background ...

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-suicide-americans-car.html


2 posted on 09/22/2012 10:39:34 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

Did Thelma and Louise count as suicides or car crashes?


3 posted on 09/22/2012 10:42:53 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

It counted as “women drivers”. :^)


4 posted on 09/22/2012 10:45:02 PM PDT by This Just In
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To: Cementjungle

pics on Sodahead

5 posted on 09/22/2012 10:45:51 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

Incidentally, I don’t believe the stats on this.


6 posted on 09/22/2012 10:46:11 PM PDT by This Just In
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To: DogByte6RER

Electing Obama was national suicide.


7 posted on 09/22/2012 10:50:52 PM PDT by cmj328
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To: DogByte6RER

Hussein can be called the “First Suicider”.


8 posted on 09/22/2012 11:01:05 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: cmj328

Succinct and well said.


9 posted on 09/22/2012 11:02:04 PM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: This Just In

Yep, these stats sound bogus.


10 posted on 09/22/2012 11:05:14 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Whatever a homosexual union might be or represent, it is not physically marital. - F.Cardinal George)
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To: DogByte6RER
Being first in food stamps as well as suicides could be quite a distinction for him.
At least the obamanation condemed are assured a last meal.


11 posted on 09/22/2012 11:32:01 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: DogByte6RER
There's only one rational solution: Outlaw Suicide! /sarc
12 posted on 09/22/2012 11:52:49 PM PDT by danielmryan
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To: danielmryan

No, no, no,

We obviously need yet another bloated government program to deal with this......Crisis....

Never let a crisis go to “waste” when it comes to people “wasting” themselves....


13 posted on 09/23/2012 12:55:07 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: DogByte6RER

Suicide Prevention ... November 6


14 posted on 09/23/2012 1:05:48 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: DogByte6RER
Republicans take note.

If this demographic is rising, they invariably vote 'rat almost exclusively.

15 posted on 09/23/2012 1:18:11 AM PDT by C210N ("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
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To: danielmryan

“There’s only one rational solution: Outlaw Suicide! /sarc “

They already did, if you fail they arrest you!!!


16 posted on 09/23/2012 1:48:57 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: C210N; Tax-chick; F15Eagle
Give a man a ride to the polls, and he'll vote demoncrat for a day.

Give him a ride in a hearse, and he'll vote demoncrat for eternity.

Suicide is increasing in the Obama nation? Considering that Obama is as the angel of death, a demon of desolation...
He's the ideal head of the RAT party, a veritable Satan's workshop of plague, perversion, and profanation.

17 posted on 09/23/2012 1:56:12 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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"'Prevention strategies can focus on individuals, families, neighborhoods or entire communities to reduce risk factors.'"

A good first step in prevention would be to vote Obama out in November. That would have a more dramatic effect on these numbers than any combination of individual strategies.

18 posted on 09/23/2012 2:03:44 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: DogByte6RER

Maybe it’s just that car crashes are down because no one can afford gas any more. /s


19 posted on 09/23/2012 2:11:41 AM PDT by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Travis McGee

Concise meme point. Note the source is not American, AGAIN.


20 posted on 09/23/2012 2:16:10 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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