American Parenting? –
April 11, 2019 – The numbers are very alarming,” pediatric emergency room physician Brett Burstein from McGill University told CNN. “We are seeing an acceleration of this issue, and I worry that we have not yet seen the peak.” Using data collected by the Centres for Disease Control and Infection (CDC), the authors analyzed over 30,000 visits to the emergency department for children ages five to 18.
In 2007, at the very beginning of the study, the authors tallied about 580,000 visits for suicide attempts or suicidal thoughts. By 2015, that number had skyrocketed to 1.12 million. It’s the second analysis in a row to show this alarming increase, and by the looks of things, the problem is only picking up steam. Using the same kinds of data, an earlier study reported a similar increase between 1993 and 2008.
