The percentage increase in the number of prescriptions for any sleep medication between 1999 and 2010, from 5.3 million to 20.8 million, according to an article recently published in the journal Sleep -- Trends in Outpatient Visits for Insomnia, Sleep Apnea, and Prescriptions for Sleep Medications among US Adults: Findings from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey 1999-2010.
18.7 per 100,000
The 2013 suicide rate among active duty Service members, according to the recently released Department of Defense Quarterly Suicide Report Calendar Year 2013 -- 4th Quarter (PDF), issued by the Defense Suicide Prevention Office. Among members of the Reserve component, the rate was 23.4 per 100,000, and among National Guard members, 28.9 per 100,000.
6 in 10
The number of U.S. Army personnel over the course of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars "meeting self-reported criteria for PTSD, MDD, or PTSD and MDD" who did not utilize mental health services, according to a new report published in the American Journal of Public Health --Trends in Mental Health Services Utilization and Stigma in US Soldiers From 2002 to 2011.
15%
The percentage by which suicide rates declined "in states that implemented higher taxes on cigarettes and stricter policies to limit smoking in public places," according to a forthcoming study in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research -- Probing the Smoking–Suicide Association: Do Smoking Policy Interventions Affect Suicide Risk?
764,000
The number of young adults (ages 18-24) who "serve in either the Active Duty or the Reserve component of the U.S. Armed Forces," according to a new report from the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, America's Young Adults: Special Issue 2014.