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Dr. Jay Carruthers is Director of the Suicide Prevention Center of New York At New York State Office of Mental Health and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Albany Medical Center. September is Suicide Prevention Month, so we wanted to discuss this enormous public health problem and learn how New York State’s Office of Mental Health is responding.
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The content of this interview may be upsetting for some listeners.Clancy Martin is an acclaimed author, Guggenheim Fellow, and professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and Ashoka University in New Delhi. He is also the survivor of more than ten suicide attempts. In the new book, “How Not to Kill Yourself,” Martin chronicles his multiple suicide attempts. The book is an intimate depiction of the mindset of someone obsessed with self-destruction.
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The Vermont Department of Health and the Department of Mental Health are teaming up to launch a statewide suicide prevention effort.
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Commuters in the greater Springfield, Massachusetts area may see a mobile billboard promoting suicide prevention. The Mental Health Association of…
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In today's special suicide prevention episode we are joined by two experts: Doctor Jane Tillman of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts…
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There is an opportunity this weekend for people in western Massachusetts to get an unwanted firearm out of the house. The Hampden District Attorney’s…
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A new initiative in Massachusetts is trying to reduce suicides among people of color. The project by the Massachusetts Coalition for Suicide Prevention is…
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September is National Suicide Prevention Month. Joining Vox Pop to discuss suicide prevention is Dr. Katie Lewis of the Austen Riggs Center in…
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Citing an alarming increase in the rate of suicide among young people, inmates and Americans as a whole, Albany County Executive Dan McCoy today…
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Students on campuses across the country are walking “Out of the Darkness” to fundraise for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The trek at the…