CNN (4/20, Christensen) reports, “The rate of suspected suicides and suicide attempts by poisoning among young people rose sharply during the Covid-19 pandemic,” with the rate increasing 73% “from 2019 to 2021” in “children 10 to 12 years old,” according to an analysis published online April 21 in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The study examined “what the National Poison Data System categorized as ‘suspected suicides’ by self-poisoning for 2021 among people ages 10 to 19; the records included both suicide attempts and deaths by suicide.” The data revealed that “attempted suicides and suicides by poisoning increased 30% in 2021 compared with 2019, before the pandemic began.”
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— “Suicides and suicide attempts by poisoning rose sharply among children and teens during the pandemic “Jen Christensen, CNN , April 20, 2023