Why do Mormons have such extreme suicide and drug use rates? (church, LDS)

[lovecrowds]

According to the County Health Rankings it seems Utah has a very, very high rate of illicit drug use deaths.

For example, Carbon County in rural Utah has a drug death overdose rate of 54 per 100,000 residents.

Tooele County which is a suburban Salt Lake County has a rate of 29 per 100,000.

Weber and Salt Lake County have a rate of 24 per 100,000 residents for drug overdose death rates.

Cass County in North Dakota which is a snowy place with cold winters has a rate of 4 per 100,000 for drug overdose deaths.

Compared to Los Angeles County that has a rate of 7 per 100,000.

Basically, Salt Lake has a drug overdose death rate that is over 3 times higher then Los Angeles County and 6 times higher then Fargo. North Dakota

http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/...ta?sort=desc-3

http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/...ta?sort=desc-3

The drug problem is so bad in Mormon-based Salt Lake City that the city of 190,000 has always 354 robberies in the first 8 months of the year and they had 479 robberies last year.

http://slcpd.com/c0ntent/uploads/Cit...ol-1-No-52.pdf

Glendale, California which is a larger city in Los Angeles they had 67 robberies even Compton only had 353 robberies.

Utah also has a huge suicide issue compared to other states.

Suicide Numbers Up in Utah - Story | Utah | Good4Utah

http://www.sltrib.com/news/4075258-155/story.html

In fact the LDS church has been profiled in a new weekly documentary highlighting the church

http://www.aetv.com/shows/escaping-polygamy

[mensaguy]

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