News tagged with self injury
Controlling alcohol habits as students find 'release' may avoid later addiction
(Medical Xpress)—Current college culture allows for an environment where risks of addiction and alcohol dependency increase while mental health decreases.
Addiction
Apr 24, 2013 |
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Self-injury in young people is gateway to suicide
(Medical Xpress)—Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI)—deliberately harming one's body through such acts as cutting, burning or biting—is a primary risk factor for future suicide in teens and young adults, finds a new longitudinal ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 05, 2012 |
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Кesearcher identifies factors to help parents and professionals recognize teens in distress
Suicide is the third-leading cause of death for teens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, a University of Missouri public health expert has identified factors that will help parents, medical ...
Health
Oct 04, 2012 |
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People who self-harm are three times as likely to die prematurely often due to poor physical health
People who have a history of self-harm are more than three times as likely to die prematurely as the general population, and not just from the obvious causes, with deaths due to natural causes at least two times greater than ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 17, 2012 |
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Suicide risk for older people who self-harm
Older people who self-harm are at much greater risk of suicide than both the general population and younger adults who self-harm, a new study has found. Researchers from The University of Manchester studied 1,177 people over ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 02, 2012 |
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One in three households misreports smoke alarm coverage
One in three households in Baltimore misreports its smoke alarm coverage, with the vast majority of errors due to over-reporting coverage, according to a study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research ...
Health
Apr 25, 2012 |
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A decade of study provides insights into the world of self-injurers
During the past 10 years two Colorado professors have collected the widest available base of knowledge about people who practice self-injury and now are offering new insights into people who deliberately injure ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 08, 2011 |
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A new study on self-injury behavior encourages quick and targeted intervention
While the disturbing act of self-injury is nothing new to adolescents, researchers and physicians at Nationwide Children's Hospital have identified a more severe type of behavior that is raising some concern among medical ...
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May 10, 2011 |
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