Friday, April 21, 2023

Suspected suicide attempts by self-poisoning increased among teenagers in the U.S. during Covid-19

A lot has been written lately in Western countries how our children were affected by three years of Covid-19 related drastic, draconian overreaction in response to a fairly harmless, but very infectious disease!

Those drastic measures were perhaps justified in the very early stage of the Covid-19 pandemic up until about mid-2020 when the nature of this disease was still largely unknown and precaution made sense! After about mid-2020 it became clear it was a fairly harmless, but very infectious disease and that certain groups of the population needed to be protected as best as possible like the elderly and immune-compromised.

This is perhaps one of the more concerning news!

"The rate of suspected suicide attempts by self-poisoning increased by 30% among 10­–19-year-olds in 2021, with a “stunning” spike—73%—seen in kids ages 10–12, according to a new CDC report that analyzed data from US Poison Control Centers."

"... In 2020, suicide was the second leading cause of death among persons aged 10–14 years and the third leading cause among those aged 15–24 years. ...
In 2021 and 2022, an analysis of substances involved in suspected suicide attempts found acetaminophen, ibuprofen, sertraline, fluoxetine, and diphenhydramine to be the substances most frequently involved, with a significant increase in acetaminophen- (71.0% and 58.0%, respectively) and diphenhydramine- (24.2% and 35.8%, respectively) involved overdoses compared with those in 2019. Overdoses involving ibuprofen (35.1%), fluoxetine (44.2%), and sertraline (32.3%) increased significantly in 2021 compared with prepandemic rates (2019)"

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FIGURE 1. Rates of suspected suicide attempts by self-poisoning among persons aged 10–19 years reported to U.S. poison control centers, by substance*,† — United States, January 1, 2016–September 30, 2022

FIGURE 2. Number of monthly suspected suicide attempts by self-poisoning among persons aged 10–19 years reported to U.S. poison control centers — United States, January 1, 2019–September 30, 2022


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