Suicide Rates For Teens Reaches High-Water Mark Driven In Part By Sharp Uptick Among Older Teenage Boys

For girls and young women, suicide rates have mostly followed a steady upward trajectory since 2000, but for boys it turned up sharply starting three to four years ago. Not since 1980 — when the HIV/AIDS epidemic touched off widespread despair among young gay males across the United States — has the suicide rate for this group been so high.

from Kaiser Health News http://bit.ly/2WUdGyd