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According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide deaths increased in 2021 for the first time in two years.
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A KERA analysis found that more than 400 men, women and children in three North Texas counties perished in gun-related incidents during the first six months of 2022.
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A KERA analysis found that guns were involved in the majority of suicides in North Texas in the first half of 2022 — a tragic pattern found in communities across the nation.
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There are sites where violent history intrudes unbidden. But Dallas has a history of bulldozing its history. So Brad Ford Smith is researching and drawing places where something awful once happened.
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The weekly conversation podcast was started in response to skyrocketing mental health concerns among children, made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Abbott said the suicides are being investigated and thinks it will come out that not all “actually occurred during Operation Lone Star.”
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Despite lockdowns, historic job losses and COVID-19, new figures from the CDC show that death by suicide dropped for a second straight year in 2020.
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U.S. Army officials unveiled a new resource and training center at Fort Hood on Thursday that aims to create a more supportive culture following reports of murder, suicide and sexual assault at the embattled Texas military installation.
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Nearly 8% of Muslims in a recent survey reported a suicide attempt in their lifetime compared with 6% of Catholics, 5% of Protestants and 3.6% of Jewish respondents.
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During the pandemic, Cook Children's Hospital has seen a record number of suicide-related deaths. So, the Fort Worth hospital has launched the JOY campaign, which aims to combat bullying and mental health issues for young people in North Texas.
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KERA's Justin Martin spoke with Dr. Kia Carter, the co-medical director of psychiatry at Cook Children's Medical Center, about the global rise in suicide and self-harm with teenagers and children.
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Months of remote learning were hard on the Frisco ISD student. Like other schoolchildren across the state, he experienced mental health issues, in large part due to social isolation during the pandemic.