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The purpose of VA’s National Suicide Prevention report is to COUNT every Veteran suicide so we can PREVENT every Veteran suicide. Preventing Veteran suicide and saving lives is our top clinical priority at VA, and we take every step possible to make sure that our Veteran suicide data is accurate—because the first step to SOLVING this problem is UNDERSTANDING it. Our methodology for creating this report is well-established and consistent, based on verified data from the CDC and DoD, and meets the quality and standards of a peer-reviewed publication. In the interest of full transparency, we release these yearly reports detailing how we come to the conclusions in the Annual Report.

Here are some major conclusions from this year’s report: