Colorado's Suicide Numbers Highest In 20 Years

Colorado's Suicide Numbers Highest In 20 Years
Economy Could Be A Factor
Honora Swanson hswanson@kjct8.com

COLORADO -- In a report out Wednesday, Colorado's suicide rate is the highest in 20 years.

In 2009, 940 Coloradans died by suicide according to suicide prevention officials with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

The office of suicide prevention says these numbers can sometimes reflect the times.

"We know historically when the unemployment rate goes up, suicide rate also goes up. So that may be one of the issues," Jarrod Hindman with the Department of Public Health and Environment said. "The rest of the recession can also be included in that. Things like foreclosures, all of those pressures that come with the economic recession are factors."
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Colorado Suicide Numbers Highest In 20 Years