How does it feel to be bullied? Well it does NOT feel very well. For some cases, it leads to suicide. Statistics show that… Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people, resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts.
Suicide has definitely been increasing throughout the past years. Suicide rates, for 15-24 year olds, have more than doubled since the 1950’s, and remained largely stable at these higher levels between the late 1970’s and the mid 1990’s. In the past 60 years, the suicide rate has quadrupled for males 15 to 24 years old, and has doubled for females of the same age (CDC, 2002). Suicide rates for those 15-19 years old increased 19% between 1980 and 1994. Since the peak in 1994 with 11.0 suicides per 100,000, there has been a 34% decrease.
In this section of the report, the authors detail the rate at which destructive fire kills, injures, and causes property loss to Americans. The report states that fire claims the lives of 12,000 people every year in the U.S., making it the second highest cause of accidental death. That isn’t the only human toll, because there are also 300,000 people who are injured by fire on an annual basis. The authors expound on the injuries by detailing the painful experiences of patients who must endure numerous plastic and reconstructive surgeries. The price of destructive fire is estimated at over $11 billion a year in the U.S. Loss of businesses leads to loss of jobs, which is a price that is beyond calculation.
Murders by firearm rates are 17.5 times higher than in twenty-two other populous high-income nations combined. The United States is one of the most violent nations in the world. Because of this, suicide rates are very high, and costs are very high. Nearly as many citizens are killed each month, as were killed in the first seven years of the Iraq war. The suicide rate of children between the ages of five and fourteen is eleven times higher than that of twenty-five other countries.
This is nearly a 50% increase in a two year period.2 2. The trend of taking painkillers for nonmedical purposes is increasing most in the 18-26 age 3. Among children aged 12-17, almost 12% of the population surveyed said they had used prescription drugs for nonmedical purposes. 4. Talking more specifically about painkillers, Opiod painkillers, like Vicodin, OxyContin, and Demerol cause more drug overdoses than heroin and cocaine combined.
Web. 28 Oct. 2010. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/feb2009/suic-f04.shtml. In this article Mr. Cogan talks about the army suicide rate, it is higher than the general American population. “The rate has been calculated as 20.2 per 100,000 soldiers, compared with 19.5 per 100,000 civilians”. Mr. Cogan also states that in 2008 an estimated 30 percent of soldiers took their own lives while on deployment and that another 35 percent committed suicide after returning home.
Problem/Issue Statement Over the past 30 years childhood obesity rate has tripled in the United States. Today nearly one out of every three children is obese or overweight. Many of these children will grow up to be obese adults that will suffer from high blood pressure, cancer, asthma, and other health related
The most concerned subject of committing suicide are students. According to the South China Morning post, there are average 23 suicides in a year between 2010 and 2014. The high-pressure education system is blamed for this incident. Students in Hong Kong have to bear a tremendous pressure from school and their parents. As Hong Kong education system focus too much on score-oriented assignments, which pressuring students paying all their time only to focus on tests.
Chpt:3 Gun violence in America has risen drastically in the past 100 years. This has caused a high mortality rate and many disruptions in American home. The United States has the highest mortality rate, per 100,000 population size. With homicide, suicide and other incidents recorded, the United States stands well above other countries with homicide at 3.98 in comparison to the next highest homicide rate at 0.81 which clearly shows the gap. While some say a gun in the home is for protection, a study done in King County Washington concluded “that for every instance of justifiable homicide, there were 1.3 accidental deaths, 4.6 criminal homicides, and 37 suicides with guns”(Spitzer, p.66) Violence without guns would surely continue, but the
Hymowitz explains that even though numbers of suicide remain small, it has more than doubled in the last thirty years. The use of drugs and alcohol among tweens is increasing as well, but she uses in eighth graders in her example which means children from the ages 13 to 14 so this statement does not apply to tweens. So, should the reader trust that the statistics are accurate, or could they be the author’s invention? These last few topics are brought up very briefly throughout her article. With these topics being brought up very briefly it makes the article appear very