Institutional Failures as Structural Determinants of Suicide: The Opioid Epidemic and the Great Recession in the United States

Institutional Failures as Structural Determinants of Suicide: The Opioid Epidemic and the Great Recession in the United States, in Journal of Health and Social Behavior

key takeaway: "Women’s suicide rates from poisonings track strongly with increases in prescription drug availability and...nonpoisoning suicide rates among all adult Americans track strongly with worsening economic conditions coinciding with the financial crash and Great Recession."