CNN (6/15, McPhillips) reports, “In 2021, suicide and homicide rates for children and young adults ages 10 to 24 in the US were the highest they’ve been in decades, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” The report found that “suicide and homicide were the second and third leading causes of death for this age group,” while “the homicide rate for this age group in 2021 was the highest it’s been since 1997, and the suicide rate was the highest on record, since 1968.”
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— “Youth, young adults are dying from suicide and homicide at highest rates in decades, CDC report says,” Deidre McPhillips, CNN, June 15, 2023