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For Native Americans, Mental Health Budget Cuts Hit Hard

Suicide rates among Native Americans are already four times the national average. And with recent cuts in federal funding for mental health services across the country, suicide prevention programs may lose ground in the communities that need them most.

Antidepressant use nationally fell by 31 percent among adolescents between 2000 and 2010. Suicide attempts increased by almost 22 percent.

Warnings Against Antidepressants For Teens May Have Backfired

After the Food and Drug Administration said that antidepressants could spur suicidal thinking in teens, doctors prescribed the drugs less often. The change may have led to more suicides.

Older men may have guns in the home that can pose a risk when people are depressed or not thinking clearly.

Should Doctors Ask Older People If They Have Guns At Home?

Pediatricians have long asked parents if they have guns in the home, in an effort to reduce accidents and suicides in children and teens. That could help protect older patients too, a study says. But the notion of doctors asking about gun ownership is controversial.

Pakistan Ends Another Year With A Horrifying Attack

Dozens were killed in a suicide attack on Tuesday. In 2014, gunmen stormed a school and killed more than 140 people.Renee Montagne talks to author Mohsin Hamid about what the country is going through.

People who have easy access to firearms are about three times more likely to kill themselves than people who don't have access to guns, a recent study from the University of California, San Francisco indicates.

When Deciding To Live Means Avoiding Guns

When a 23-year-old who has tried to kill himself visits family, he must mentally prepare to resist hurting himself with their guns, he says. Gun access can make suicidal impulses harder to fend off.

Up To Date’s Indie, Foreign & Doc Critics’ ‘Three to See,’ November 18-20

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Up To Date’s Indie, Foreign & Doc Critics’ ‘Three to See,’ November 11-13

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A House-approved bill would require a court hearing before a U.S. veteran is deemed mentally unfit to own a gun. Here, rifles are seen at a gun shop in Merrimack, N.H., last year.

House OKs Bill Making It Tougher To Keep 'Mentally Incompetent' Vets From Buying Guns

Critics of the bill say it could lead to more suicides — in one recent year, an average of 20 veterans per day died from suicide, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Crosses memorialize the victims of a mass shooting, which left at least 22 people dead, in El Paso, Texas. It was one of cluster of shootings that took place in roughly a week.

Mass Shootings Can Be Contagious, Research Shows

It may not be a coincidence that several mass shootings took place in one week. Research shows perpetrators are often inspired by media coverage of other shootings.

Blood stained the ground at the scene today in Khost, where a suicide bomber struck.

Bombing Kills At Least 14 In Afghanistan, Including Three NATO Troops

In another incident, a firefight between NATO and Afghan troops left at least two Americans dead. Confusion, not an "insider attack," may have sparked the deadly exchange. The number of U.S. military and civilian personnel killed in Afghanistan since late 2001 has now passed 2,000.

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