What we’re not being told about suicide and depression
These lengthy results, for example, include extensive evidence that involvement in the criminal justice system (such as being on parole or probation) is highly correlated with suicidality, depression, and serious mental illness. Yet Americans are not told that preventing unnecessary involvement with the criminal justice system—for example, marijuana legalization and drug use decriminalization—could well prove to be a more powerful antidote to suicidality, depression, and serious mental illness than medical treatment.STFU.
"Shouldn’t researchers be examining American societal and cultural variables that are making so many of us depressed and suicidal?"
You are talking but you're not saying anything.
You should read some epidemiology and medical history.
Those "variables" (poor nutrition, confinement, lack of health care) were documented as obvious risk factors for communicable and chronic illness long before Koch's Germ Theory of disease... pretty much since the first cities were built.
Swab those peoples noses.
Check their teeth.
Give them decent food, sunshine and vitamin D.
Next.
