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Teen Suicide Rates Decline

Posted on September 03, 2008

Despite the hysteria a year ago about a one-year spike in teenage suicide rates, new data show what many were previously cautioning about drawing broad conclusions from a single datapoint: The new research, based on 1996-2005 national data, appears in Wednesday s Journal of the American Medical Association. It shows the rate dropped by about 5 percent [ ] from 1,983 suicides in 2004 to 1,883 in 2005. You d think everyone would be happy with such a drop, but no, people commenting on the study in the article continue to express caution, despite the decline. Also not surprising is the ...

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