National Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery Month - September 2009

Press Room

Alcohol and risk of suicide

(7/14/2009 )

The scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted a 17-state study of violent deaths from 2005-2006. The study uncovered a correlation between suicide and alcohol.

For further information, see the June 19, 2009 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: "Alcohol and Suicide Among Racial/Ethnic Populations --- 17 States, 2005--2006".

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