The Alaska Dispatch News (12/5, Demer) reported, “Alaska’s suicide rate of 23 for every 100,000 people in 2013 was the second highest” in the US, falling behind that of “Montana, according to data reported to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” with “young Alaska Native men” being “particularly vulnerable.” The Dispatch News explained that “a multitude of factors usually contribute to a decision to take one’s own life, not a single bad thing like a lost job or broken relationship, but also mental illness, a lack of jobs and opportunity, alcohol abuse and among Native people, cultural loss.”
Related Links:
— “In rural Alaska, a new approach to fighting suicide emerges,” Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News, December 5, 2015.