Risk of Suicide Rising Among Black and Hispanic Americans
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 15, 2022
Suicides and suicide attempts by Black and Hispanic Americans are on the rise. Changing the way doctors, clergy, and school personnel think about risk may be essential to prevention, reports a UConn Health researcher.
Suicide in the US is relatively rare, and suicide among Blacks and Hispanics in the US has historically been thought to be even rarer than in the population overall. Data from the early 1980s that tracked suicide attempts (which are more common than suicide, but closely correlated) found that white people were 1.7 times as likely as Black and Hispanic people to . . .
