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Pooling 19 studies, researchers found all-cause mortality raised about 1.7-fold in people with ADHD, with suicide and injury deaths most elevated — while those on ADHD medication had lower all-cause mortality.
A prespecified analysis of 227,502 veterans who contacted the Veterans Crisis Line found suicide mortality of 0.29% among caring-letter recipients versus 0.27% in historical controls — no measurable difference.
A PAHO systematic analysis of WHO estimates finds injury rates falling in most of the region but violence and drowning still splitting countries apart, with men carrying nearly three-quarters of the burden.
Two of the largest datasets — 6.5 million UK bank customers and a Swedish national registry — tie heavier gambling to financial and health decline, and gambling disorder to a fifteenfold suicide death rate.
Users were slightly less likely than non-users to attempt suicide in the two to four years after treatment. The FDA's 2005 boxed warning stands, and the analysis cannot explain the direction of the finding.