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Ian Rocket, professor emeritus of epidemiology in the WVU School of Public Health. Photo by WVU
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. Photo by WVU
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.
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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.
A new West Virginia University-led injury mortality study combines most drug overdose deaths with all suicides into an expanded self-injury category. Exposing a mental health crisis that has unraveled across the United States over the past two decades, study data have direct implications for suicide prevention efforts.