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Archived Suicide Prevention and Depression related news stories
Meeting IRL to Save Lives Online -
Suicide Prevention in the Age of New
Media - American Association of Suicidology
Community for Hope gets ready to open a Fox Cities affiliate while trying 'to
shed the shroud of secrecy' of suicide The Post-Crescent
Suicide Prevention training in Iron Mountain - The Daily News, Iron
Mountain, MI
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Teens Who Think They’re Overweight More Likely To Try Suicide
Suicidal Thinking May Be Predicted Among Certain Teens with Depression
Well-Developed
Community Mental-Health Services Are Associated With Lower Suicide Rates
Statement On JAMA
Study Showing Continued High Rate Of Youth Suicides After "Black Box" Warnings
Suicide Prevention
May Be Broadened By Broaching Issue Of Access To Guns With Patients
Lethal Means:
Suicide, Firearms and Violent Deaths (see page 4 of this .pdf for article
from "The Beat," a Madison Police Department Newsletter)
Soldier suicides at record level - Washington Post
School for Deaf
addressing suicide - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Global Suicide Risk
Factors Appear Consistent
Mental Disorders Cause 1.3 Billion Annual Days Of Lost Role Performance
New Research Strives To Understand How Antidepressants May Be Associated With
Suicidality
Suicide among youth – Which mental disorders are responsible?
New
[Australian] study reveals attempted suicide often a snap decision fuelled by
drugs and alcohol
Religion and Suicide (PBS report)
WUMH radio ad (plays an audio
file)
Jails strive to save inmates from themselves (Beloit Daily News)
$5.5 Million Available for State-Sponsored Youth Suicide Prevention (2005)
$1.8
Million Available for Mental Health Services for Adolescents at Risk of Suicide
(2005)
$1.3
Million Available for Campus Suicide Prevention Grants (2005)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced the launch of the
National Suicide Prevention
Lifeline 1-800-273-TALK.
President Bush Signs Youth Suicide Prevention
Act (2004)
Youth Suicide Just as Deadly a Threat as Obesity (Chicago Tribune, free
registration required)
Screening for Mental Health
has launched a new website and campaign,
Stop a Suicide, Today!, in honor of World Suicide Prevention Week (Sept.
5-11)
CDC Reports Latest
Data (2004) on Suicide Behaviors, Risk Factors, and Prevention
Congress Passes Youth Suicide
Prevention Act (September 9, 2004) [.pdf]
Suicides far
outnumber homicides in Wisconsin in 2002 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Suicide
watch: Agency tries to help others after death: When founder of the Goltz Seering Agency, Inc.
died, firm devoted attention to raising awareness
Parental Suicide Haunts Children, USA Today
American Psychiatric Association Releases its First Guideline on Suicide (.pdf)
Familial
Suicidal Behavior: A Newsmaker Interview With Maria Oquendo, MD (Medscape
article, free registration required)
And Still, Echoes of a Death Long Past - New York
Times, free registration is required, effects of suicide on survivors
A Secret Best Not Kept - a documentary film created by a woman who, at age 13, lost
her mother to suicide
Why? The Neuroscience of Suicide
New research addresses the wrenching question left when someone ends his or her
own life - Scientific American Magazine | 