The U.S. surgeon general calls mental health the “defining health crisis of our time.” On a special edition of Meet the Press, Kristen Welker dives into the growing crisis and how to solve it.
Ok so every couple of years this same headline comes out.
But there is never a % or per-capita number for suicides. Of course there’s going to be more suicides when there’s more and more people. What has the suicide rate per capita been? How much has that gone up?
They do the same thing with overdose deaths. Never give a per capita rate.
Not that i don’t see suicides and overdoses as a problem caused by capitalism. Of course they are. An honest conversation is important though.
Ok so every couple of years this same headline comes out.
But there is never a % or per-capita number for suicides. Of course there’s going to be more suicides when there’s more and more people. What has the suicide rate per capita been? How much has that gone up?
They do the same thing with overdose deaths. Never give a per capita rate.
Not that i don’t see suicides and overdoses as a problem caused by capitalism. Of course they are. An honest conversation is important though.
Edit: here is more data that makes the picture much more clear than the media sensationalism which is all we ever get: https://sprc.org/about-suicide/scope-of-the-problem/suicide-deaths-in-the-united-states/