Clinical strategies for reducing firearm suicide

Abstract Suicide is complex, with psychiatric, cultural, and socioeconomic roots. Though mental illnesses like depression contribute to risk for suicide, access to lethal means such as firearms is considered a key risk factor for suicide, and half of suicides in the USA are by firearm. When a person...

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Main Authors: Rocco Pallin, Amy Barnhorst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-10-01
Series:Injury Epidemiology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-021-00352-8