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Global Suicide Risk Factors Appear Consistent

Mental Disorders Cause 1.3 Billion Annual Days Of Lost Role Performance

New Research Strives To Understand How Antidepressants May Be Associated With Suicidality

Suicide among youth – Which mental disorders are responsible?

New [Australian] study reveals attempted suicide often a snap decision fuelled by drugs and alcohol

Religion and Suicide (PBS report)

WUMH radio ad (plays an audio file)

Jails strive to save inmates from themselves (Beloit Daily News)

$5.5 Million Available for State-Sponsored Youth Suicide Prevention (2005)

$1.8 Million Available for Mental Health Services for Adolescents at Risk of Suicide (2005)

$1.3 Million Available for Campus Suicide Prevention Grants (2005)

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced the launch of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-TALK.

President Bush Signs Youth Suicide Prevention Act (2004)

Youth Suicide Just as Deadly a Threat as Obesity (Chicago Tribune, free registration required)

Screening for Mental Health has launched a new website and campaign, Stop a Suicide, Today!, in honor of World Suicide Prevention Week (Sept. 5-11)

CDC Reports Latest Data (2004) on Suicide Behaviors, Risk Factors, and Prevention

Congress Passes Youth Suicide Prevention Act (September 9, 2004) [.pdf]

Suicides far outnumber homicides in Wisconsin in 2002 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Suicide watch: Agency tries to help others after death: When founder of the Goltz Seering Agency, Inc. died, firm devoted attention to raising awareness

Parental Suicide Haunts Children, USA Today

American Psychiatric Association Releases its First Guideline on Suicide (.pdf)

Familial Suicidal Behavior: A Newsmaker Interview With Maria Oquendo, MD (Medscape article, free registration required)

And Still, Echoes of a Death Long Past - New York Times, free registration is required, effects of suicide on survivors

 A Secret Best Not Kept -  a documentary film created by a woman who, at age 13, lost her mother to suicide

Why? The Neuroscience of Suicide New research addresses the wrenching question left when someone ends his or her own life - Scientific American Magazine