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2006 - 2016 TOTAL SUICIDE DEATHS

NEW HAMPSHIRE  v  UNITED STATES

OCTOBER 2017

"Suicide is an especially acute concern in New Hampshire. While there are many factors that go into someone’s decision to take his or her own life, New Hampshire residents are exposed to some major indicators of an increased suicide rate, experts say, including harsh winter months, high levels of drug abuse, wide access to guns and life in a rural area."

"New Hampshire being placed in the top 20 states for most suicide deaths. The Granite State exceeds national rates in almost every age category."

2006 to 2016 TOTAL SUICIDE DEATHS - N.H. and U.S.

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As Overdose Deaths Pile Up, a Medical Examiner Quits the Morgue

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE  OCT. 7, 2017

Dr. Thomas Andrew, the chief medical examiner of New Hampshire, retired last month.  Bodies from overdose deaths have overwhelmed medical examiners across the country.  Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times 

CONCORD, N.H. — In the state morgue here, in the industrial maze of a hospital basement, Dr. Thomas A. Andrew was slicing through the lung of a 36-year-old woman when white foam seeped out onto the autopsy table.

Foam in the lungs is a sign of acute intoxication caused by an opioid. So is a swollen brain, which she also had. But Dr. Andrew, the chief medical examiner of New Hampshire, would not be certain of the cause of death until he could rule out other causes, like a brain aneurysm or foul play, and until after the woman’s blood tests had come back.

With the nation snared in what the government says is the worst drug epidemic in its history, routine autopsies like this one, which take more than two hours, are overtaxing medical examiners everywhere.

“It’s almost as if the Visigoths are at the gates, and the gates are starting to crumble,” Dr. Andrew said. “I’m not an alarmist by nature, but this is not overhyped. It has completely overwhelmed us."

Wth 64,000 overdose deaths last year nationwide — a staggering 22 percent jump over the previous year — it is little wonder that overdoses, the leading cause of death among Americans under 50, are reducing life expectancy. They are also straining the staffs and resources of morgues, and causing major backlogs.

This is especially true in New Hampshire, which has more deaths per capita from synthetic opioids like fentanyl than any other state. Last year the overdose death toll here reached nearly 500, almost 10 times the number in 2000.

In Milwaukee, Dr. Brian L. Peterson, the chief medical examiner, said that apart from the “tsunami” of bodies — his autopsy volume is up 12 percent from last year — the national drug crisis has led to staff burnout, drained budgets and threats to the accreditation of many offices because they have to perform more autopsies than industry standards allow.

At the same time, severe staff shortages unrelated to the drug crisis are crippling the profession, said Dr. Peterson, who is president of the National Association of Medical Examiners, which oversees accreditation. Few people go into forensic pathology in the first place, he said, largely because of low salaries, and as more forensic pathologists retire, fewer are replenishing the supply.

The result, Dr. Peterson said, is a national crisis that has already cost at least four offices their accreditation, which can undermine public confidence and lead to court challenges over a medical examiner’s findings.

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Dr. Andrew, right, examining a body. After two decades as a chief forensic pathologist, he retired last month to begin a seminary program. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times 

A medical examiner’s office is considered deficient if an individual pathologist must perform more than 250 autopsies per year. Last year, Dr. Andrew and Dr. Jennie V. Duval, the deputy chief medical examiner, performed 250 each.

If this year’s number exceeds last year’s, New Hampshire could be in trouble. Pathologists cannot refuse to do autopsies just because they might risk losing accreditation. Nor would Andrew rush through them, he said, even if all signs pointed to a drug overdose.

The logbook also revealed that drug users in their 20s and 30s are increasingly dying of heart-valve infections, known as endocarditis. The ages are young for such infections; in these cases, they result from dirty needles.

“We have seen more endocarditis in the last two years than we have in the previous 15 combined,” Dr. Andrew said.

Dr. Andrew said he developed an appreciation for the essence of life by seeing its fragility. Most of the nearly 5,800 (Divided by 20 years of service is actually 290 bodies per year) people he has examined on his stainless steel autopsy table, he said, “woke the day they died oblivious to the fact that it would be their last on earth.

For him, there is comfort in the concept of an afterlife.

“I’m very, very hopeful for what comes after this, because this —” he said, gesturing toward the woman he had just autopsied — “is pretty awful.”
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2015 States with Highest Alcohol Consumption Per Capita

The following is the average amount of ethanol (pure alcohol) that is consumed per person, based on population age 14 and older.

1. New Hampshire: 4.44 gallons
2. District of Columbia: 3.84 gallons
3. Nevada: 3.3 gallons
4. Delaware: 3.09 gallons
5. Alaska: 3.03 gallons
6. North Dakota: 2.93 gallons
7. Wisconsin: 2.76 gallons
8. Vermont: 2.74 gallons
9. Colorado: 2.71 gallons
10. Nebraska: 2.31 gallons

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SAMHSA, Center for Behavioral Health
Statistics and Quality, National SurveyS

HEALTH BEHAVIOR BEROMETER FOR NH, 2015

In New Hampshire, about 11,000 adolescents aged 12–17 (11.1% of all adolescents) per year in 2013–2014 reported using illicit drugs within the month prior to being surveyed. The percentage did not change significantly from 2010–2011 to 2013–2014.

In New Hampshire, about 31,000 individuals aged 12–20 (19.5% of all individuals in this age group) per year in 2013–2014 reported binge alcohol use within the month prior to being surveyed. The percentage did not change significantly from 2010– 2011 to 2013–2014.

In New Hampshire, about 2 in 3 (66.4%) adolescents aged 12–17 in 2013–2014 perceived no great risk from having five or more drinks once or twice a week—a percentage higher than the national percentage (60.9).  The percentage of adolescents aged 12–17 in New Hampshire who perceived no great risk from having five or more drinks once or twice a week did not change significantly from 2010–2011 to 2013–2014.

In New Hampshire, an annual average of about 82,000 individuals aged 12 or older (7.2% of all individuals in this age group) in 2014–2015 had an alcohol use disorder in the past year. The annual average percentage in 2014–2015 was not significantly any different from the annual average percentage in 2011–2012.

In New Hampshire, an annual average of about 13,000 adolescents aged 12–17 (13.4% of all adolescents) in 2014– 2015 had experienced an MDE - Major Depression Episode in the past year. The annual average percentage in 2014–2015 was higher than the annual average percentage in 2011–2012. 

In New Hampshire, an annual average of ONLY 5,000 adolescents aged 12–17 with past year MDE (41.2% of all adolescents with past year MDE) from 2011 to 2015 received treatment for their depression in the past year.

In New Hampshire, an annual average of about 57,000 adults aged 18 or older (5.4% of all adults) in 2014–2015 had SMI - Serious Mental Illness in the past year. The annual average percentage in 2014–2015 was higher than the annual average percentage in 2011–2012.

In New Hampshire, an annual average of about 105,000 adults aged 18 or older with AMI - Any Mental Illness (Only 49.3% of all adults with AMI) from 2011 to 2015 received mental health services in the past year.

 In 2015, 10,658 children and adolescents (aged 17 or younger) were served in New Hampshire’s public mental health system.  The annual average percentage of children and adolescents (aged 17 or younger) reporting improved functioning from treatment received in the public mental health system was lower in New Hampshire than in the nation as a whole. The annual average percentage for adults (aged 18 or older) was lower in New Hampshire than in the nation as a whole.

Among adults served in New Hampshire’s public mental health system in 2015, 45.0% of those aged 18–20, 27.1% of those aged 21–64, and 59.5% of those aged 65 or older were not in the labor force.

In 2014–2015, New Hampshire’s annual average percentage of adults aged 18 or older with past year serious thoughts of suicide was higher than the corresponding national annual average percentage.

In New Hampshire, an annual average of about 52,000 adults aged 18 or older (4.9% of all adults) in 2014–2015 had serious thoughts of suicide in the past year. The annual average percentage in 2014–2015 was not significantly any different from the annual average percentage in 2011–2012.

Source: SAMHSA, Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, National Surveys on Drug Alcohol Use and Health, 2010–2012 to 2013–2015.
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NH, the state that has been going to hell in a hand basket for decades only says "LIVE FREE OR DIE", LITERALLY!  While being the only Granite state in the nation living in the stone age, where the powerful and the fittest, will literally be the only one true survivors. 

How are you liking our tax free but yet still illegally rule breaking state so far now!?!?!  NH government truly only knows how to drive the population insane and more so to an early grave!!!!!