Iowa’s suicide rate has increased each year since 2000, with the most Iowans — 536 — dying by suicide in 2020, up from 286 deaths in 2000, according to Iowa Department of Public Health data.
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day. September 11th is the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Director of community-based suicide prevention at the VA Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Aaron Eagan says veterans of the war in Afghanistan are on their radar following the U.S. withdraw from Afghanistan.