Increased access to prescription opioids and a shrinking economic safety net contributed to an increase in suicide rates in the 21st century, according to new CU Boulder research.
  • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    surprising reasons

    It's the material conditions of working class Statesians again. How surprising.

    I hate how suicide is treated as some mysterious issue by the bourgeois media. How hard is it to think that maybe making life easier and worth living would make more people want to stay alive?

    Every time a liberal politician says "we have to be practical" about implementing basic social welfare such as higher minimum wage or universal healthcare, remember that they are explicitly weighing the amount of people who will die or kill themselves without those things.

    As one author puts it:

    “Suicide hotline crisis numbers and efforts to help people at the individual level are all amazing and necessary, but our work shows that higher-level, institutional interventions are also critical in addressing this crisis,” said Simon. “Giving a person a job or proper health care can also be a suicide-prevention tool.”

    If anybody has access to the paper, could you upload it somewhere and give me a ping? I really want to read it, but it's not in the sci-hub yet.

    Managed to get access, here's the paper in catbox.

  • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    I have read nothing, my guess is going to be Capitalism, most people are destitute, and when things get super bad its near impossible to get yourself a better lot, and ways to end your life are realitivly easy to come by, and so that choice becomes preferable

    • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      It's been so bad that life expectancy has been dropping since 2019, linked heavily with suicide and opioid addiction.

      Best part is the only Democrat primary candidate to even mention it was Mathman Enlightened Centrist Andrew Yang of all people. Tens of thousands of people kill themselves each year, and all they get is a suicide hotline and an "I voted" sticker to "defeat Donald Trump".

      • Trudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.ml
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        9 months ago

        Andrew "Gut Social Services" Yang was the only one who was talking about the social crisis in this nation last election cycle and nobody's even talking about it now.

        Alienation of people from their social environment is so harsh that family relations look more like interaction between acquaintances, especially among white Americans. This isn't sustainable long-term.

  • CatrachoPalestino@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    the social situation in america is quite bad, especially for young white males which is why after 80 year olds 25 to 35 year olds there are most likely to commit suicide, whites are most likely to commit suicide followed by native american women, and men are around 4 times more likely to commit suicide. I don't feel envious of them in the slightest

  • leanleft@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    likely the economic cooling. ex: people piling on debt, car truck getting repo'd, people getting evicted or laid off or both.