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The New Mexico Department of Health Epidemiology and Response Division reports provisional data show a small decline in the 2021 rate of suicide among youth ages 5 to 18 years compared to the year before. It is a beginning in what is expected to be a long-term collaborative effort with the New Mexico Human Services Department and community partners to address a nationwide problem of suicide death rates, which exceed …