Suicide Stats Dropping Since 1995

On a whim I decided to look for myself at what stats I could find on suicides for the Teenscreen age group. 

I found a whole document (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus05.pdf#046) on CDC's website and in it there was a spreadsheet that had suicide stats for all age groups and nationalities, etc. dating back to 1950.

So downloaded that and  exported that information to an Excel spreadsheet and used some of the table data to create this graph (above). 

I happen to prefer line graphs because I think they speak volumes.

In this case, the "volumes" would revolve around just how unnecessary not to mention utterly redundant suicide screening programs like Teenscreen really are.

Suicides are declining and have been since 1995 or so. The last thing we need to be doing right now is running our kids through a program that is funded by Big Pharma and is thus going to result in more kids being put on drugs which are known to cause thoughts of suicide. 

Repeat: the drugs administered are KNOWN TO CAUSE SUICIDAL IDEATION.

So let's not *%#$ with this situation and for gawd's sakes get these drug front groups out of our learning institutions.

Knowing this, don't you think anyone who is pushing for kids to get screened should be viewed with extreme suspicion?  In this parent's opinion, they are either severely mis-/underinformed or are  pushing Pharma's agenda to get more kids on more drugs.

Link: N C H S - FASTATS - Suicide.

Death rates for suicide, according to sex, race, Hispanic origin, and age: selected years 1950-2002 Health, United States, 2005, table 46