CDC reports a 51% rise in suicide attempts in teenage girls during pandemic compared to a 4% rise in boys
New CDC study found weekly visits to the emergency department for suspected suicide attempts by teenage girls rose 50.6 percent from 2019 to 2021
The study also found that among boys in the same age group there was a 4 percent rise in suspected suicide attempts over the same time period
The reported suicide attempts for both genders surged during the pandemic, and increased the longer lockdown and social distancing orders were in place
The increase in suspected suicide attempts by young people could be attributed to social distancing, which took away the in-person connections built at school
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An inmate at the Pima County Adult Detention Complex in Tucson died Sunday after being found injured in his cell two days prior, according to the Pima County Sheriff s Department on Wednesday.
Around 10 a.m. on June 4, corrections officers were performing rounds when they discovered a man in the jail, who police identified as 29-year-old Jack Dixon, hanging in his cell, according to the Sheriff s Department.
Officers immediately entered the cell and performed life-saving measures with medical staff until the Tucson Fire Department arrived, the Sheriff s Department
said.
Personnel resuscitated Dixon and transported him to a local hospital where he was stabilized, the Sheriff s Department
Moment bullied transgender teen, 13, is beaten up in hallway at living hell school in Florida while a dozen kids stand around filming
Chad Sanford, a sixth-grader at Deerfield Beach Middle School, says she was slammed to the floor by eighth-grader who s being bullying her for being gay
Video of the attack shows Sanford being picked up from behind and thrown down head first amid a crowd of students, none of whom seems to help
Sanford says she was left suffering from headaches and suicidal thoughts; she described the school year as living hell
incident is being investigated by school district and Broward County Sheriff s Office
Charisma Garza, 15, took her own life two and a half years ago. She would ve graduated from La Porte High School this Friday and her classmates were hoping the school would honor her.