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By Amanda Radke
I recently read a troubling article written by Max Kutner for News Week, which cited a Center of Disease Control (CDC) study that showed the rates of suicide among farmers is greater than the self-imposed deaths of military veterans.
We know that veteran suicide is a growing problem here in the U.S. A new report from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) shows the suicide rate for veterans is higher than previously estimated.
According to Kutner, “The VA analysis analyzed data from more than 55 million veteran records in 50 states between 1979 and 2014. It found that the group of veterans with the highest suicide rate was males 18 to 29, with 85.64 suicide deaths per 100,000 people. (That means for every 100,000 veterans, roughly 86 die by suicide.) For women in that age group, the rate was 32.74 per 100,000. The suicide rate for all veterans in 2014 was 35.3 per 100,000.”
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