Suicide accounts for over 44,000 deaths per year in the United States and suicide rates have risen 33% since 1999.8,9 Military veterans are a particularly vulnerable group, who are more than twice as likely to die by suicide relative to the general population.14 A recent executive report from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) synthesizing data obtained from family member interviews, chart reviews, and clinician opinion found that pain was the most common factor experienced by veteran suicide decedents prior to their death.
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