Utah youth suicides jump 141% since 2011; self-harm also up, report says

SALT LAKE CITY — The number of Utah teenagers lost to suicide per year jumped 141 percent from 2011 to 2015, accompanied by even greater increases in known incidents of self-harm and the number of youths who say they have considered taking their own life, according to a new report released Thursday by the Utah Department of Health.
The department released the data collected with the help of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address what it calls the "urgent public health pr