Lester D
Center for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, NJ 08012.
Psychol Rep. 1993 Jun;72(3 Pt 2):1282. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1993.72.3c.1282.
In the USA from 1936 to 1970, the military participation rate predicted alcohol consumption. These two variables combined with unemployment rates to predict accurately suicide rates during this same period.