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Primary Care Targeted For Suicide Prevention Efforts
April 11, 2011 by NewsBot
Forty-five percent of the 32,000 Americans who take their own lives each year visit their primary care provider within one month of their death. Ninety percent have a mental health or substance abuse disorder, or both. Yet only in the last decade has suicide been considered a preventable public health problem...


