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The silent epidemic of America’s problem with guns

Author: Editorial 19th April 2021 0 Comments

“Mass shootings dominate the national conversation on gun control, but two thirds of gun deaths are suicides. How do you solve a problem hardly anyone talks about?“ Joel Gunter reports for the BBC: “The night Brayden died was a cold, clear…
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BBC, gun control laws, guns, Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Joel Gunter, suicide, suicide prevention, USA

How Suicide Quietly Morphed Into a Public Health Crisis

Author: Editorial 24th August 2018 0 Comments

From an article by Benedict Carey in The New York Times: “The deaths of the designer Kate Spade and the chef Anthony Bourdain, both of whom committed suicide this week, were not simply pop culture tragedies. They were the latest markers of an intractable public health crisis that has been unfolding in slow motion for a generation . Treatment…
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antidepressants, anxiety, Benedict Carey, guns, New York Times, public health, suicide, wellbeing