| RESEARCH ARTICLE SOCIAL SCIENCES OPEN ACCESS A century of suicide: Insights from long-term data in the United States Nina de Lacya,b, Wai-yin Lama, Timothy Collinsc, David Danksd , Fernando A. Wilsone, Ken R. Smithf,g , and Bernice A. Pescosolidoh,i,1...
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| RESEARCH ARTICLE SOCIAL SCIENCES OPEN ACCESS A century of suicide: Insights from long-term data in the United States Nina de Lacya,b, Wai-yin Lama, Timothy Collinsc, David Danksd , Fernando A. Wilsone, Ken R. Smithf,g , and Bernice A. Pescosolidoh,i,1 Affiliations are included on p. 9. Contributed by Bernice A. Pescosolido; received August 12, 2025; accepted January 29, 2026; reviewed by Monica M. Matthieu and Julie A Phillips The 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention identifies suicide as “an urgent and growing public health crisis” driven partly by mental health and overdose rates, Significance the COVID-19 pandemic, and declining social connectedness. Yet, data constraints have limited long-term investigations of suicide trends. Acknowledging limits in data High and rising suicide rates are sequence continuity, we constructed the Suicide Trends and Archival Comparative a defining feature of the current Knowledgebase (STACK), harmonizing data from 1900–2021. Coupling
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