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Every year more than 500,000 teenagers attempt suicide. High school students are under a lot of pressure: grades, conforming to the rules, dating, exposure to drugs, and problems at home. This program deals with one promising solution: peer groups. Teenagers are accustomed to going to their friends with their problems; in this case, their friends have been trained to recognize the signs of impending suicide: threatening suicide, giving away prized possessions, and substance abuse - particularly in conjunction with access to lethal weapons.
In this program, Jim Wells, a nationally-recognized expert on suicide, says that even
Every year more than 500,000 teenagers attempt suicide. High school students are under a lot of pressure: grades, conforming to the rules, dating, exposure to drugs, and problems at home. This program deals with one promising solution: peer groups. Teenagers are accustomed to going to their friends with their problems; in this case, their friends have been trained to recognize the signs of impending suicide: threatening suicide, giving away prized possessions, and substance abuse - particularly in conjunction with access to lethal weapons.
In this program, Jim Wells, a nationally-recognized expert on suicide, says that even as teens are taking their own lives, they do not really want to die. "Somebody blows away part of his frontal lobe and right eye, and the person who is in the household hears a shot and comes running in, and the (suicide) still has the loaded gun in his hand and says, 'Quick, call an ambulance' They don't take another shot." The purpose of this program is to provide some help before that shot is fired.
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