Resource Types: Fact Sheet/Issue Brief

This issue brief reports on 2016 alcohol-and drug-induced fatalities and suicide which had reached the highest number ever recorded, 142,000 Americans or an average of one every four minutes. Data are provided by age group, sex group, state, drug type and suicide. Refers to recommendations in the report, Pain in the nation: The drug, alcohol and suicide epidemics and the need for a national resilience strategy.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) produced this series of state-by-state fact sheets which include suicide data by sex, adult age group and means for the year 2016. The state rates are compared with the rest of the region and nation. These fact sheets are based on the VA’s report, Suicide among veterans and other Americans, 2001–2016, a comprehensive review of more than 55 million records which allowed the VA to examine veteran suicide rates in each state and region. These are updated versions of the sheets corrected for minor inconsistencies in 2018.

This Statistical Brief examines the characteristics and disposition if homeless individuals reporting to emergency departments (EDs). It cover mental illness, suicide and self-inflicted harm, insurance status, age range, race/ethnicity and the type of hospital (teaching vs. nonteaching) for the year 2014. Data were from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) 2014 State Inpatient Databases (SID) and 2014 State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD) from eight States (Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, and Wisconsin). 

This policy brief discusses national suicide trends based on the level of urbanization, highlights federal resources, and offers recommendations on how the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services can better inform policy as it relates to reducing overall rates and deaths in rural America.

Data from the 2015 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey indicates that students that student with a high grade point average were much less likely to feel sad or hopeless nearly every day for at least 2 weeks in a row, seriously consider attempting suicide, make a plan to attempt suicide and actually attempt suicide. School health professionals, officials and other stakeholders can use this information to target suicide prevention activities to assist students at risk.

This brief provides information on ED visits related to suicidal ideation among adults aged 18 years or older in 2006, 2010, and 2013. It presents trends in the population-based rate overall and by patient and hospital characteristics. Trends in the number of admissions to the same hospital are examined over time, as well as the cost and length of these inpatient stays. ED visits related to suicidal ideation are then compared with all other adult ED visits in 2013, including overall visits, and by patient characteristics, expected payer, and disposition status. Finally, co-occurring injuries and mental and substance use disorders for patients with ED visits related to suicidal ideation in 2013 are presented.