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What is behind the rise in suicides by 1/3 in the United States since the 1990s?

I watched the Wall Street Journal's video on this topic about how Angus Deaton and Anne Case did a study on the rise of suicides in the US since the 1990s. "Deaths of despair."

What are your estimates on the causes behind this trend as social scientists?
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Emile Durkheim would argue that societies that lack cultural rituals that tie people together on a regular basis will see have an increased number of suicides. His book, On Suicide, is a statistical and theoretical foray into the suicide rates across the globe and gives us a keen insight into why suicide rates different from culture to culture and epoch to epoch.