USA Today (7/18, Pitofsky) reports, “The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline saw calls double from 2014 to 2017, an increase that coincides with rising” US suicide rates. Last year, “the lifeline answered more than two million calls…up from one million calls in 2014, according to its latest figures.” Figures released June 7 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal a 25 percent increase in suicide rates “from 1999 to 2016.”
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— “‘Like a busy emergency room’: Calls to suicide crisis centers double since 2014, “Marina Pitofsky, USA Today , July 18, 2018.