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Currently suicide is Among college

the third leading students specifically,
cause of death suicide is the second
among youth; only leading cause of
accidents and death, surpassed
homicide claim only by accidental
more young lives. injury.
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2t has been suggested that the
increase in the youth suicide rate
paralleled an increase in the rate of
depression since the 1950s.
The psychosocial revolution in the
Western world beginning in the
1960s, marked by a greater freedom
in sexual behaviour, as well as
changes in the expectations that
young men and women had for
themselves and for their
relationships, is also thought to have
contributed to youth suicide.
Relationship between substance
abuse and suicide has been clearly
established in a number of studies of
both adults and youth.
2ncreased availability of firearms as a
contributing factor is suggested by
increases in the rate of suicide by
firearms among young people in the
United States during the 1980s .
Similar increases in youth suicide
have been seen in countries such as
New Zealand and in Europe,
however, where firearms are not a
common suicide method .
The diminishing cohesion of the
family observed since World War 22
has frequently been blamed for a
wide range of youth problem
behaviours, including both drug
abuse and suicide.
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 Between the mid-1950s and the late 1970s, the suicide rate among U.S. males
aged 15ʹ24 more than tripled. Among females aged 15ʹ24, the rate more than
doubled during this period. The youth suicide rate generally levelled off during the
1980s and early 1990s, and since the mid-1990s, it has been steadily decreasing.
 About 4,000 people aged 15ʹ24 die by suicide each year in the United States.
 2n the United States suicide is currently the third leading cause of death among all
youth ages 15ʹ24.
 Among young people aged 15ʹ24, males die by suicide almost six times more
frequently than females.
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