INTERACTIVE: Kentucky among states with highest suicide rate increases

Published: Jun. 8, 2018 at 4:01 PM EDT
With several well-known individuals' suicides all over media recently, it brings to attention the rising suicide rates in the United States.
Kentucky has seen a 36.6 percent increase in suicides between 1999 and 2016, which is more than 10 percent higher than the increase seen nationally at 25.4 percent.
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