40% drug abuse suicides committed in Maharashtra
Nearly 40% (7,672) of the 19,247 suicides linked to drug abuse or addiction in India between 2010 and 2014 were reported from Maharashtra, according to National Crime Records Bureau data. The number of suicides in Maharashtra were three times greater than Madhya Pradesh, which had the next highest number of drug abuse-linked suicides (2,518) in the same period.