Rethinking Lethality in Youth Suicide Attempts
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First suicide attempts are more lethal than previously realized, reports a study of children and adolescentspublished in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP). Seventy-one percent of youth dying by suicide did so on their first attempt, also known as the “index” attempt; the authors also found that firearms are implicated in 85 percent […]