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SAMHSA Supports National Suicide Prevention Week |
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More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia and influenza, and chronic lung disease, combined. |
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SAMHSA and other mental health groups are using National Suicide Prevention Week to encourage people in crisis and those who are concerned about someone possibly at risk for suicide to use the Lifeline and the many lifesaving services it offers.
Using state of the art technology and a network of 135 crisis centers across the country, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline can immediately link a caller seeking help to a trained counselor closest to the caller's geographic location - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Calls to the Lifeline and the counseling services provided are confidential.
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You can now get information and help by visiting one of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline's social networking pages. |
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