"Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline"
Suicides among young adults dropped most sharply in states that actively embraced the 988 crisis line, new research has found.
Some good news for this Friday. The linked NYT article refers to the information in this study.
Suicide remains a leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults in the US. In July 2022, the US launched the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, replacing the 10-digit 1-800-273-TALK number with a 3-digit number and investing more than $1.5 billion to expand crisis center capacity and workforce nationwide. In the subsequent 3 years, contacts to the lifeline more than doubled, with disproportionately higher use among adolescents and young adults. Whether population-level suicide mortality in this group changed after launch of the 988 Lifeline is unknown.
|
