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Ian Rocket, professor emeritus of epidemiology in the WVU School of Public Health.
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Broadening the definition of self-inflicted mortality to encompass most drug overdose deaths, WVU emeritus professor Ian Rockett led a study finding that the entire nation is gripped by a mental health crisis. In recent years, western states have reported more suicides but Rockettâs research revealed that many drug overdose deaths in non-western states should have been classified as suicides.
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MORGANTOWN â Classifying a death as suicide may be easiest for medical examiners and coroners in the western United States, which reports the highest suicide rates officially. Suicide by firearm is the leading method there, and usually clear in terms of evidence.