Rural, urban suicide gap widening among youth

reuters.com ^ | Andrew M. Seaman

[BenLurkin]

“Most concerning is that adolescents with a history of mental illness and those with a history of suicidality were as likely to report access to guns kept in the home as were those without such histories,” he added.

Fontanella and her colleagues suggest that integrating mental health services into primary care visits may improve access.

[BenLurkin]

Anti-gun hysteria...."It's for the children"

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The real problem with juvenile mental health care is that the individual states have never addressed it. Today it is mostly left up to parents who institutionalize their children until the insurance money runs out. Otherwise the kids are put in juvenile hall as criminals.

It’s a mess.

http://www.jaapl.org/content/34/2/204.full

[Chode]

Overall, for every 100,000 males ages 10 to 24, about 20 in rural areas committed suicide every year, compared to about 10 per year in urban areas.

yeah... cause the urban yoot is ten times more likely to go out and kill somebody else!!!

lets see those stats

[JoeFromSidney]

cause the urban yoot is ten times more likely to go out and kill somebody else!!!

Or be killed by someone else. If he's murdered, he doesn't show up among the suicide statistics.

[Chode]

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