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More than 49,000 people died from suicide across the U.S. in 2022, a 3% rise over the year before. That’s according to a new report released Wednesday by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
“The number in 2022 is the highest ever recorded in the U.S,” says Sally Curtin, a statistician at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics and a lead author of the new report. “These are provisional data, so we expect the final number to actually be a little bit higher than that.”
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