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I don't think that is the case.

The article however does mention,

>I’m tempted to wonder if people are misclassifying suicides as overdoses

Which would not surprise me in the least given the data is coming from CDC. Everyone from all sides seem to agree that CDC lost lots of credibility with coronavirus.

If suicides via (intentional) overdose went up, but not by other methods, i think that would raise even more questions of why only 1 method went up.

"This guy fell off a bridge.... probably caused by covid"

That's not how suicide statistics work.