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Answer 1
- The suicide rate has not changed.
Despite the development of suicide treatment programs as well as improved recognition and treatment of psychiatric disorders, the overall suicide rate in the Unites States has not changed in the past several decades. There has been some change within subgroups of age, sex, and race, but the overall rate remains in the range of 11 to 12 suicides per 100,000 persons annually.
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