{"id":1998161,"date":"2023-08-11T17:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T21:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suicides-hit-record-high-last-year-in-u-s-men-are-vast-majority-of-deaths\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T17:22:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T21:22:15","slug":"suicides-hit-record-high-last-year-in-u-s-men-are-vast-majority-of-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suicides-hit-record-high-last-year-in-u-s-men-are-vast-majority-of-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Record high number of suicides in the U.S. last year, with men comprising the majority of fatalities."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsuicides-hit-record-high-last-year-in-u-s-men-are-vast-majority-of-deaths%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1998161&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><blockquote>\n<h2>Record High Suicides in 2022: A Disturbing Trend<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-introduces-gun-control-bill-psych-evaluations-ammo-bans-federal-gun-registry\/\" title=\"Democrat Introduces Gun Control Bill: Psych Evaluations, Ammo Bans, Federal Gun Registry\">suicide rate<\/a> in\u200d the United States has reached its highest point since World War II, with a staggering 49,500 suicides\u200d recorded last year, according to\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suicides-hit-record-high-last-year-in-u-s-men-are-vast-majority-of-deaths\/\" title=\"Record high number of suicides in the U.S. last year, with men comprising the majority of fatalities.\">recently released \u200bgovernment data<\/a>. This marks a \u200b3% increase \u200cfrom the\u200b previous year, with over 1,000\u200c more lives lost to suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Men are \u2064disproportionately affected, accounting for nearly four times as many suicides as women. In 2022, 39,255 men took their own lives, compared to 10,194 \u2063women. These numbers represent an increase from the \u2063previous year,\u200c when 38,358 men and 9,825 women died \u200dby suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Among male racial groups, white men \u2064have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/living-through-a-socialist-collapse-an-insiders-account-of-venezuelas-demise\/\" title=\"Living Through A Socialist Collapse: An Insider\u2019s Account Of Venezuela\u2019s Demise\">highest suicide rate<\/a>, with approximately 50 suicides per 100,000 \u2063men, as reported by the Centers for Disease \u200bControl and Prevention (CDC). Loneliness, social alienation, and a diminished sense of purpose are identified as risk factors for male suicidality, often \u200bstemming from challenging life events such as job loss or the \u2062breakdown of a nuclear family.<\/p>\n<p>White individuals accounted for approximately 75% of all suicides in \u20632022, aligning \u200bwith their representation in\u200c the population. \u200cHowever, Native Americans have historically experienced the highest suicide rate, \u2062with approximately 28 deaths per 100,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>While there is a glimmer of hope in\u2064 the decline of youth suicides by over 8% last year, \u2063the number of children and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psychoactive-drugs-often-linked-to-mass-shootings\/\" title=\"Psychoactive Drugs Often Linked to Mass Shootings\">young adults taking<\/a> their own lives still reached a troubling 6,500. The\u2064 COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly played a role in \u2062exacerbating \u200cmental health challenges among young people, with \u2063school closures and social\u2062 isolation taking a\u2064 toll.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to recognize \u2064that suicide remains \u200ca leading cause of death in the United States. The upward trend in suicides since the early 2000s, interrupted briefly in 2019,\u200c has resurfaced amidst the ongoing \u200bpandemic. Additionally, the\u200c pandemic\u2062 has contributed\u2064 to a surge in drug addiction and homelessness, further highlighting the\u200c urgent need for comprehensive \u200cmental health\u200b support.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET \u200bTHE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>If you or someone you know needs support now, call or text 988 or chat\u200c at [insert helpline information].<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, suicides reached a record high of 49,500, surpassing the rate since World War II, as per government data released by the CDC. The new data reveals a 3% increase in suicide deaths in 2022, with over 1,000 more lives lost to suicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1998162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}