Autistic females (assigned sex at birth) have an 83% increased risk of self-harm leading to emergency health care relative to non-autistic people, according to a new study from ICES and the Center for Addiction and Mental ...
Aug 8, 2023
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July 2023 marks the one-year anniversary of the national launch of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Currently, more than 200 call centers throughout the U.S. are responding to 988 calls. But few people know it exists. SciLine ...
Jul 28, 2023
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A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine identified three overlapping clusters of deaths of despair (i.e., suicide, overdose, and chronic liver disease and cirrhosis deaths) across the United States since ...
Apr 26, 2023
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Contrary to popular belief, firearm deaths in the U.S. are statistically more likely in small towns, not major cities, according to new research. Across the country, gun suicides are more common than gun homicides, and gun ...
Apr 26, 2023
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Controversy surrounds the effects of policies to reduce opioid prescriptions on suicide rates. There are concerns that rapid reductions in prescription opioids might provoke increased suicide risk among people who become ...
Apr 11, 2023
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A new study from Karolinska Institutet suggests that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), lithium, and clozapine may reduce suicide rates in adolescent men with severe mental illness, consistent with previous findings in adults. ...
Mar 14, 2023
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A new analysis of firearm death rates from 1981 to 2020 shows that the people most heavily impacted by firearm deaths were Black men and white men, and that rates of firearm-related homicides and suicides jumped between 2019 ...
Dec 14, 2022
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The U.S. gun death rate last year hit its highest mark in nearly three decades, and the rate among women has been growing faster than that of men, according to study published Tuesday.
Dec 3, 2022
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Suicide is a complex issue that impacts 425,000 Australians every year. That's because up to 135 people are directly or indirectly impacted by each suicide death.
Nov 22, 2022
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Americans aged 25 to 44—so-called millennials—are dying at significantly higher rates from three leading killers than similarly aged people just 10 years ago, the latest government data shows.
Nov 16, 2022
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