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CDC: Transgender youth more than three times as likely to attempt suicide
Transgender students are more likely than their cisgender counterparts to attempt suicide, experiment with drugs and alcohol, experience bullying and be forced to have sex, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Report: Virginia jail lapsed in inmate oversight, supplies
A Virginia state report says the Riverside Regional Jail failed to monitor an inmate and wasn’t equipped to handle a suicide.
3 months ago -
Suicide rates highest among American men in construction, women in creative fields
Suicide rates were highest among men who worked in construction or extraction (oil rigging, mining) jobs and women who worked in arts, design, entertainment, sports and media, the report found.
5 months ago -
After wife’s suicide, Va. state trooper struggled, sought help
A Virginia State Police sergeant whose wife, a Fairfax County firefighter, died by suicide talks about his own struggles after her death.
5 months ago -
Thousands of flags on National Mall bring attention to veteran suicides
“Some of us standing here could have been one of these flags but for an intervention,” says one veteran. In all, 5,520 postcard-size flags were planted on a patch of grass between the Washington Monument and 15th Street to represent veteran suicides occurring in 2018 through Wednesday.
7 months ago -
Suspect identified in Charles County attempted murder-suicide
The Waldorf man shot the mother of his child and then fled the scene before killing himself in an apartment building stairwell, the sheriff’s office said.
8 months ago -
CDC says authors ‘revisiting’ highly cited study on suicide rates
The Centers for Disease Control says that researchers are revisiting a highly cited study of suicide rates by occupation – including farmers – that was published in 2016, saying that problems with the data could have led to inaccurate findings.
10 months ago -
Suicide-related hospital visits for children and teens up sharply
From 2008 to 2015, the proportion of children’s hospital visits arising from suicide attempts or suicidal thinking nearly doubled. Teens aged 15 to 17 showed the biggest increase.
11 months ago -
Police: Members of a family bombed 3 Indonesian churches
Suicide bombers on motorcycles and including a woman with children targeted Sunday Mass congregations in three churches in Indonesia’s second largest city.
11 months ago -
Mother and son dead in suspected murder-suicide in Prince George’s Co.
A relative called police around 10 p.m. to check on the welfare of a woman, when police arrived at the scene they found a 34-year-old woman and a 2-year-old boy dead inside the house.
1 year ago -
’13 Reasons’ might have triggered suicide searches online
Researchers found that for almost three weeks after Netflix released all 13 episodes of “13 Reasons Why,” there were at least 900,000 more than expected Google searches including the word “suicide.”
2 years ago -
Netflix’s ’13 Reasons Why’ linked to suicide-related internet searches
Mental health advocates wary of how teen suicide was depicted in Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why” may have well-founded concerns, according to a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
2 years ago -
New Virginia laws aim to combat student suicide
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe will sign two new bills into law on Tuesday. Both are aimed at preventing student suicides in the state.
2 years ago -
Local teens march in fight against suicide
Students at Forest Park High School in Woodbridge, Virginia, refused to remain silent about the dangers suicide poses to teens.
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Suicide-themed Netflix series concerns parents, psychologists
Amid concerns that it might glamorize suicide, one parenting blogger thinks kids should watch “13 Reasons Why” with adults and discuss it.
2 years ago
