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Experts: CDC stats on suicide rates for teen girls alarming, action needed
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30250
Subject(s) - call to action , citation , action (physics) , disease control , suicide rates , psychology , medicine , psychiatry , suicide prevention , advertising , poison control , library science , medical emergency , computer science , environmental health , business , physics , quantum mechanics
While experts cannot say what specific factors have contributed to the increased suicide rates among teen girls, hitting an all‐time high in 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), the statistics are alarming and more action is needed toward efforts in preventing suicide in children, teens, and young adults, they said.