Reuters (5/25, Seaman) reports that “the risk of suicide 10 years after adolescents were hospitalized for drug problems, alcohol abuse or violent injury was similar to the risk among those hospitalized for self-harm,” researchers found after examining “data on nearly 650,000 adolescents with accidental injuries and 333,000 with adversity-related injuries.” The findingswere published online May 25 in The Lancet. The authors of an accompanying editorial wrote, “Health-care professionals should no longer see an adolescent presenting in distress as a nuisance, wasting valuable clinical time, but as a vulnerable person deserving the second chance that responsive and sustained health care can provide.”
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— “Alcohol, drug, violence and self harm among teens need similar attention,”Andrew M. Seaman, Reuters, May 25, 2017.