The AP (10/26, Baldor) reports, “The number of suicides among U.S. military members and their families dipped slightly in 2022, compared with the previous year, as the Defense Department tries to build prevention and treatment programs to address what has been a steadily growing problem over the past decade, The Associated Press has learned.” However, “because the active-duty force is smaller now, the rate of suicides per 100,000 service members inched up, according to U.S. officials.” Overall, “defense officials said the long-term trend still points to increasing deaths, although the relative stability in the numbers for 2022 gives them some cautious encouragement.”
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— “The number of military suicides dipped in 2022 as the Pentagon works on new prevention programs,”Lolita C. Baldor, AP, October 26, 2023