Suicide Rate Remains High in Utah

Utah had the fifth-highest overall suicide rate at 25.2 per 100,000, and since 1999, the state saw a 46.5 percent increase in residents taking their own lives.

It is a crisis that has led Gov. Gary Herbert to create a youth suicide task force and state lawmakers to fund a new staffer to study why Utahns have died by suicide.

Doctor David Blodgett Director of the South West Public Health Department speaking with Andy Griffin on the Open Mike Show said there is a lot being done but they are just a piece of the puzzle.