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.
44%
The percentage of 2,597 soldiers who had been deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq who reported suffering from chronic pain, according to a research study at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, recently published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine -- Chronic Pain and Opioid Use in US Soldiers After Combat Deployment. 23.2% of these soldiers "reported past-month opioid use."