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Epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the west with middle age men dying in record numbers. Thank you for being here this morning. Tell us what prompted you to investigate and write the story. Guest thank you for having me. There is ad it was suicide epidemic across all demographics. That is something my editor and i talked about and the more we dug into it we realized the worst of it was among middleage men and as someone who is a member of the demographic, i became intrigued and fascinated about why this was an just started investigating it from there. Host lets give our viewers a snapshot from your extensive piece of Rolling Stone. Men in the u. S. Average 22 suicides per 100,000 people with those ages of 4564 representing the Fastest Growing group. Per are up from 20. 8 100,000 and 19 eddie nine to 30. 1 and 2017. The states with the highest rate ....
Is a suicide epidemic across all graphics. That was something all demographics. That was something my editor and i talked about and the more we dug into it, the worst of it was among middleaged men. As someone who is a member of the demographic, i became intrigued and fascinated about why this was and just kind of started to investigate it from there. Host lets give our viewers and listeners a snapshot from your extensive piece, men in the United States average 22 suicides for 100,000 people. 45 to 64, uped to 30. 1 in 2017. The states with the highest rates are montana with 28. 9 per 100,000. Alaska, 27 . 9 which is all doubled the national rate. New mexico, idaho, and utah round out the top six states. What do you think is causing the geographic centrality of the state and these high suicide rates. Guest all of the states and even alaska which he really did not get into, but shares the same characteristics is that, these are stat ....
Families. Frankly were a community that cares, we are an organization that provides education, support and advocacy around Mental Health dare in this country. As we have this discussion, our phone lines are a bit different, split up regional. In the tern time zone, or the mountain or pacific time stones, as folks are calling in, some stats on the state of americas Mental Health from namis latest fact sheet in a given year, and almost nearly 60 of an adult with Mental Health illness didnt receive services in the previous year. To put those numbers in perspective, how bad or good is that with previous years . Actually those statistics have remained fairly constant through the years, but what is shocking is if we think about a comparison to cancer. If half of all People Living ....
These. But first, lets take a look at the weather. Yes, darya james here get rain is standing by with traffic in john here for stuff back with a look at the forecast foggy . Yeah, those little bit, john, just a touch of fog. Overwhelmingly great day for sure. And we are going to be seeing some increasingly bright skies here just a few minutes, as you can see behind me. Nice little sunrise there behind the bay bridge going on right now. Similar perspective is what you just behind our ian james, a little bit of that light coming up over just a touch of fog out there across a lot of the bay where you are seeing it. There are a few dan spots like through the golden gate and into the north bay. So watch out for those areas. A much calmer start to the morning. Then we saw yesterday not looking at any convictions. So no thunderstorms. Its 50s 60s and some 70s to kick off this one later on today. Were going to be just as hot as we were yesterday, right back around 100 degrees for a lot of our ....