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Job loss, financial stress, isolation, anxiety, and other pandemic related stressors may lead to substance abuse, exacerbate existing mental health challenges, or create new ones.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 800,000 lose their lives as a result of suicide each year, which amounts to one person every 40 seconds.

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is pleased to announce that last month, the Trump administration issued its “road map” for preventing suicide among veterans. NASW provided input on…

An estimated 300–400 physicians kill themselves per year, a rate of 28-40 per 100,000, or more than double that of the general population, according to a 2018 review.

Today, the Federal Communications Commission adopted rules to establish 988 as the new, nationwide, 3-digit phone number for Americans in crisis to connect with suicide prevention and mental health crisis…

On an afternoon in early April, while New York City was in the throes of what would be the deadliest days of the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Lorna M. Breen found…

Some suicide prevention hotlines in Massachusetts have seen a significant increase in calls in the first six months of 2020, with the most notable jump happening since the pandemic began…

As COVID-19 continues to grip the nation and dominate headlines, suicide equally remains an important public health issue in Ohio. Following the Suicide Prevention Plan for Ohio released by Governor…

A sweeping new examination of suicide in Ohio in the past decade finds that 37 of the 88 counties now surpass the national rate, and the coronavirus pandemic likely is…

While the pandemic has had an obvious impact on everyone’s lives, experts are now seeing the less obvious toll the coronavirus and shelter-in-place orders are having on mental health.