PORTLAND, Ore.– Ahead of memorial day weekend, a us senator spent some time Friday with veterans to discuss suicide prevention among service members.
Senator Ron Wyden was in Portland Friday for a military helpline roundtable at the Lines For Life headquarters.
Lines for life is the organization that hosts the military helpline.
The crisis prevention hotline managed over 73,000 crisis calls in 2016.
It says 30,000 of those calls were from veterans.
NBC5 News reporter Brigham Harris graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree in French. Brigham worked for NBC Sports in Europe and California. He also was a sports anchor and producer at BYUtv Sports.
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Oregon had the nationâs ninth highest suicide rate across all ages in 2019 â a significant difference from the year before when the state was 17th in suicide deaths, according to suicide mortality data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The state had 20.4 deaths by suicide per 100,000 people in 2019 â the same rate as Idaho â with a total of 906 deaths. In 2018, the suicide death rate was 19 per 100,000, which amounted to 844 total deaths. Oregon was ranked 15th in the nation in suicide deaths in 2017, when its rate had also been 19 deaths per 100,000, which amounted to 825 total deaths. The 2019 change in ranking is due to several factors, including a 2.1% decrease in suicide deaths nationwide and increased suicide rates in Oregon.
Oregon s suicide rate rose in 2019, except among youth
Published CDC statistics saw Oregon rise to the nation s ninth highest suicide rate over 2019, but deaths among young people actually declined for the first time in years.
Posted: Mar 4, 2021 3:43 PM
Updated: Mar 4, 2021 3:50 PM
Posted By: Jamie Parfitt
PORTLAND, Ore. Published CDC statistics saw Oregon rise to the nation s ninth highest suicide rate over 2019, but deaths among young people actually declined for the first time in several years.
Oregon was 17th in the nation for suicide deaths in 2018, and 15th the year before that, according to the Oregon Health Authority. Federal data logged 906 deaths by suicide in 2019, or a rate of 20.4 deaths per 100,000 people, compared to 844 deaths in 2018 and 825 in 2017.
Oregon saw mostly higher suicide rates in 2019, but youth rate declined
Early data also shows 2020 pandemic did not bring rise in Oregon suicides
PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) Oregon had the nation’s ninth-highest suicide rate across all ages in 2019 a significant difference from the year before, when the state was 17th in suicide deaths, according to suicide mortality data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The state had 20.4 deaths by suicide per 100,000 people in 2019 the same rate as Idaho with a total of 906 deaths, the Oregon Health Authority said Thursday. In 2018, the suicide death rate was 19 per 100,000, which amounted to 844 total deaths.
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