U.S. Suicide Rate Spikes

The rate of Americans ending their own lives has risen to its highest level in decades, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control, and the increase is especially pronounced among women.

The age-adjusted suicide rate increased by 24% between 1999 and 2014, after a decline between 1986 and 1999, according to the CDC report. The total age-adjusted suicide rate stood at 13 in every 100,000 Americans in 2014, the report found, up from 10.5 per 100,000 in 1999.