Alcohol Use Disorder and Suicide Risk: A Fresh and Closer Look.

An editorial is presented on the opioid crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, rates of suicide are increasing, and greater public health attention to the problem of suicide. Topics discussed include the relationship of alcohol use disorder (AUD) with suicide an especially timely one for American investigators and health care providers; and alcohol use disorder carries a risk for eventual suicide is not a new one, nor is the message that this risk is compounded by psychiatric comorbidity.