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What’s causing a rising rate of suicide?

The national suicide rate has hit its highest point since 1986.

04/22/2016 | Rating NR

PBS News Hour

What’s causing a rising rate of suicide?

Clip: 4/22/2016 | 6m 25s

The national suicide rate has hit its highest point since 1986.

The national suicide rate has hit its highest point since 1986, according to statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control. Among middle-aged Americans, the gender gap narrowed between men and women who took their own lives. For 10 to 14-year-old girls, the rate has tripled in the past 15 years. Hari Sreenivasan learns more from Katherine Hempstead of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

04/22/2016 | Rating NR

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