The COVID-19 pandemic will trigger a 'tsunami' of suicides, drug overdoses, domestic violence and depression, experts say.
"We've never seen a moment where the demand for mental health care will be as great as it's going to be in the next few months and next couple of years," says Insel."If you add the spike in suicides and drug overdoses we are likely to see to those we were already expecting, the psychological toll from deaths of despair in the months ahead could very likely surpass the final mortality numbers for COVID."Mental health fallout usually follows a disaster.
Domestic abuse hotlines are also seeing increased activity: More than 5,000 people have reportedly called the National Domestic Violence Hotline since mid-March, specifically referring to COVID as the catalyst for their problems. The coronavirus will trigger a"tsunami" of suicides, drug overdoses, domestic violence and depression, experts say.Suicides were already rising when the pandemic hit. The U.S. has seen a 33 percent increase since the year 2000, according to an analysis released last year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which placed the rate at 14 deaths by suicide for every 100,000 Americans—the highest age-adjusted suicide rate recorded in the U.S. since 1942.
COVID-19 could erase progress of the last few years in dealing with the opioid epidemic. By some accounts, federal efforts to get the crisis under control were beginning to yield results. In 2017, more than 70,000 people died of drug overdoses—68 percent involving prescription or illicit opioids—making it the leading cause of injury-related deaths in the U.S. Between 2017 and 2018, overall overdose death rates decreased by 4.
There's no shortage of efforts to attract attention to the problem. Second Lady Karen Pence launched a three-year initiative aimed at changing the culture around mental health and suicide just as COVID-19 struck.
Instead, patients have inundated crisis services lines. One mother called NAMI pleading for help for her daughter, an Iraqi-war vet, who was psychotic, homeless, off her meds and unable to get help."She's desperately worried, because her daughter believes we are being invaded by aliens," says Kimball."She's been in contact via cell phone. But she can't get mental health services to come help her daughter.
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