Shining a light on suicide to combat stigma and aid in prevention efforts Suicide prevention is a newly burgeoning field, and there is much to learn from other established arenas in health and ...
Posts by Category: Suicide Prevention and Political Will
legislature, governments, Zero Suicide Initiative
Rural America
Mental health research suggests that loss is a risk for suicide attempt and completion. Sudden loss, such as that brought about by the diagnosis of a terminal illness or threat of incarceration, ...
Guns and suicide
Where there are more guns, there are more suicides, the National Research Council (NRC) concluded in a report on firearm policy released last winter. Areas with higher household gun ownership ...
Rural prevention lessons
Suicide rates in rural and remote frontier regions are significantly higher than in urban areas. Moreover, the impact of suicide is much greater in rural America because of its tightknit, ...
Public health peril
Suicide. Just say the word, and conversation halts. It’s perhaps the last taboo. It’s also sudden. Tragic. Violent. But preventable? And that in claiming 31,655 lives in 2002, suicide is a ...
States seeking services
Moving from planning to action in suicide prevention is no easy task. Yet Mike Hogan would like to pick up the pace. “We’re stuck. It’s like we’re in a car and we’re going 35 miles per hour,” ...
Enormous toll
Suicide exacts an enormous toll from the American people. Our nation loses about 50 percent more Americans to suicide each year than to homicide. Moreover, hundreds of thousands of people receive ...