The suicide rate in the U.S. is so high it rivals the so-called “opioid epidemic

New CDC Report Ignores Suicides of Pain Patients 

It looks like the Federal Government doesn't care if pain patients take their own life for lack of pain management. How many suicides were patients who gave up the fight for medications? 

Why didn't the CDC count the number of suicides by pain patients?
Why didn't the CDC look at overdoses involving pain patients and opioids to rule out suicide? 

The recent CDC Report of Suicides says:
The suicide rate in the U.S. is so high it rivals the so-called “opioid epidemic.” The number of Americans who died by suicide (44,965) exceeds the overdose deaths linked to both illicit and prescription opioids (42,249).  The nationwide suicide rate has risen by over 30 percent since 1999.

As PNN has reported, the CDC’s 2016 opioid prescribing guideline may be contributing to a rising number of suicides in the pain community.  In a survey of over 3,100 pain patients on the one-year anniversary of the guideline, over 40 percent said they had considered suicide because their pain was poorly treated.

LINK CDC Suicide Report