Researchers will next look at whether the opioid crisis has played a part in the rise.
she was surprised to find a surge in suicide among male adolescents in the past three years, as this hasn't been previously reported.The study"shows that suicide rates are dynamic, and change differently in different age groups and sexes. It also shows that suicide rates are reaching peak levels, and so we must improve our mental health solutions to suicide.""Previous studies showed that risk factors to suicide include social media use and opioid abuse etc.
Dr. Alexandra Pitman, associate professor in the division of psychiatry at UCL who was not involved in the research told Newsweek the research used robust statistical methods. She said the findings mirror the increases in young people presenting at emergency departments with self-harm between 2001 and 2015 in a separate study cited by the authors.
"These are all hypotheses, and they remain untested," she stressed."There is no reason to suspect that young people would respond less well to medication, therapy, or psychosocial interventions for depression or anxiety than people in other age groups. However, young people tend to be less well represented in trials of treatments to address common mental disorders than older people.
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