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Opioid deaths and suicides – twin tragedies that need a community-wide response
The health care community is struggling to create a unified plan to overcome the community damage done by the overlapping rise in suicide and...
Suicide prevention requires a multifaceted, comprehensive clinical effort, coupled with an equally comprehensive community effort.
“The clinician isn’t in it alone – none of us can do this alone,” explained Eileen Zeller, lead public health advisor with the suicide prevention branch of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
In an interview at an event sponsored by Education Development Center and the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, Ms. Zeller discussed new initiatives to get suicide prevention resources to clinicians and communities .