Nearly 50,000 Americans died by suicide in 2022, new CDC report reveals
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America is seeing a crisis from what has been described as “deaths of despair,” exacerbated by a culture that foments the social ills of our time. The US was already going down a dark path as communities decayed and many working-class people lost their jobs, but the COVID lockdowns were the biggest nail in the coffin. America must look to rebuild communities and provide better economic opportunity if it hopes to reverse the alarming rise in suicides.
You cannot talk about rising suicide rates without talking about the massive gun problem in America. Data shows that gun-related suicides are on the rise, and open access to firearms allows people to act out on their worst impulses. The gun epidemic has not only taken the lives of people via homicides and mass shootings, but it has also caused thousands of deaths by suicide.