There are meaningful changes so that parents are going to their childrens graduations and not to their funerals. Welcome to this special edition of america tonight. Im lisa fletcher. Campus suicide. It is the second leading cause of death among college kids in america. Roughly 1100 kids die by suicide every year. And report says thousands more think about it. University of pennsylvania campus, brilliant students, gifted athletes and limitless futures. But in the past two years too many lives have ended tragically. Tonight we speak to the loved ones left behind. So many questions, so few answers. We begin with the story of timothy hamlet. This is tims room. The undeniable love a mother has for her child is no more evident than inside the hamlet household. Even inside timothys bedroom that today remains mostly untouched. You know i cant tell you how many times ive cried in this room and just like broke down. And cant tell you how many times. And i will continue to do that. You know i hav
There are meaningful changes so that parents are going to their childrens graduations and not to their funerals. Welcome to this special edition of america tonight. Im lisa fletcher. Campus suicide. It is the second leading cause of death among college kids in america. Roughly 1100 kids die by suicide every year. And report says thousands more think about it. University of pennsylvania campus, brilliant students, gifted athletes and limitless futures. But in the past two years too many lives have ended tragically. Tonight we speak to the loved ones left behind. So many questions, so few answers. We begin with the story of timothy hamlet. This is tims room. The undeniable love a mother has for her child is no more evident than inside the hamlet household. Even inside timothys bedroom that today remains mostly untouched. You know i cant tell you how many times ive cried in this room and just like broke down. And cant tell you how many times. And i will continue to do that. You know i hav
There has been a rise in the prescription of anxiety medications and other sedative hypnotic needs. In 2014 and 15 in rhode island, 33 of those receiving opioid prescriptions were coprescribed benzodiazapines. This is a tremendous, tremendous deadly combination and has been a significant variable in the increase in opioid Overdose Deaths in rhode island and the statistics show nationally. So along with fentanyl, we need to look at the coprescription of benzodiazapine. Other strategies for the prevention of initiation include but are not limited to patient education and the use and storage of medication, family education, continued Public Health education venues and peer recovery resources. Treatment within a recovery oriented system of care individualized for the patient that is easily accessible can prevent the progression of the disease and the possibility of overdose. And i can skip here. Im quoting directly here from the rhode island governors Overdose Prevention and Intervention T
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I started crying, my mom says why are you crying what happened and i tell her the big news, and she just jumps and down. The daughter of two immigrants she says not going to college was never really an option. I know i want to get my education higher than my father did, so i wont have to struggle. But early in the application process, it became clear she didnt just need good grades to go on, but money too. And a lot of it. As soon as i started applying to different colleges and i saw tuition, it just made me feel kind of disappointed. Knowing that other students have the ability to just be like i quantity with that one. O no, i dont like that one, i want that one. And me i just felt weird, because i had to limit my choices. Gonzales has dreams of studying at old dominion, instead it has become an all out family afford to pay for her third choice. My dad has two full time jobs one at walmart deli and the other one at rudys for the airport. So i think he just every time he get as paychec