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BALTIMORE (AP) — The teen
age suicide rate, which tripled be
tween 1950 and 1975 as drug and al
cohol abuse among young people
also soared, is starting to decline and
should decrease gradually over the
next five years, a researcher said
Wednesday.
“It’s not a huge drop-off,” said
Richard Wetzel, a clinical psycholo
gist at Washington University in St.
Louis. “It’s still about three times
what it was before (in the 1950s) but
it looks like it’s starting to edge
down.”
Wetzel, who spoke at a news brief
ing sponsored by the American
Medical Association and Johns Hop
kins Medical Institutions, cited a va
riety of studies by him and others in
drawing his conclusions.
He said the current decline in
teen-age suicides might be due in
part to an equivalent decline among
young people in drug and alcohol
abuse.
“I think that’s happening, but
that’s speculation,” he said.
Wetzel said studies have shown
that the sharpest rise in teen-age sui
cides, which occurred between 1965
and about 1979, was paralleled by a
dramatic rise in drug abuse among
the young.
Studies in California also have
found that suicides are more likely
in counties with higher levels of
drug and alcohol abuse, he said.
A recent study in San Diego of
133 suicide victims under 30 showed
that 53 percent of the victims abused
drugs or alcohol — which was three
times the drug and alcohol abuse
rate among the overall population,
Wetzel said.
“These were primarily people
who started off very young with
drug abuse,” Wetzel said.
Some of the studies Wetzel exam
ined refute the widely held view that
suicide rates remain constant for a
given population as it ages.
The newer studies have convinced
Wetzel that external factors can in
fluence a population’s suicide rates,
he said. Using these new studies,
Wetzel has made a mathematical
prediction that the rates should go
down by a total of about 7 percent
over the next five years.
The prediction is based on what’s
called'an auto-regression model, in
which statistics from past years are
analyzed mathematically to deter
mine future trends.
Mental illnesses — specifically, de
pression and psychosis — have also
been identified as risk factors for
suicide, Wetzel said.
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surging at Western public universi
ties, but sagging at some New En
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day.
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enrollments at public four-year uni
versities rose 1.8 percent during the
same period, but fell 2 percent at
four-year private institutions.
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