Rethinking Lethality in Youth Suicide Attempts

By Elsevier on Oct 5, 2018   Featured, Health  

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 […]