Suicides by Americans aged 10 to 24 are continuing to climb and guns are increasingly the method of choice in these tragedies, a new report finds.
Easy access to firearms can mean suicide is often impulsively done and fatal, the researchers pointed out.
The new findings"show that firearm suicide mortality is increasing in this [younger] population," they added.among people ages 10 through 24 from 2013 to the end of 2020.were recorded during that time for this age group, they reported in the Sept. 5 issue ofThe researchers also calculated"years of life lost"—a person's life expectancy minus their age at the time of their death.
Overall,"our study found almost 3 million years of life lost due to suicide from 2013 to 2020," the researchers noted."Suicide by firearm alone accounted for over 1.3 million years of life lost in the study period."
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