The AP (11/15) reported that “health officials” with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “say the workers with the highest suicide rates have construction, mining and drilling jobs.” The findings, which were published Nov. 16 in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, corrected “an earlier study that mistakenly said farmers, lumberjacks and fishermen killed themselves most often.” In arriving at these conclusions, investigators examined data on “22,000 people who died of suicide in 2012 and 2015, and what jobs they held.”

The NBC News (11/15, Fox) website reports that across the entire population, suicide rates are rising, the report revealed, with men being more likely than women to commit suicide.

Related Links:

— “Corrected study: Building, mining have high suicide rates, AP, November 15, 2018.

TIME (11/14, Bajekal) reports that “the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has worked with tens of thousands of children in struggling, often war-torn nations around the world who are suffering from…toxic stress,” which is “a relentless cycle of trauma, violence and instability, coupled with a lack of adequate care at home.” According to TIME, “in some cases, the IRC has used drawing to help children open up or as a way to process their trauma.” The article features drawings “from IRC projects in Cambodia during the genocide, in Sierra Leone and Uganda in the early-2000s and in Jordan just last year.” These drawings depict “what it’s like to endure displacement, violence and separation, through the eyes of the children themselves.”

Related Links:

— “How Traumatized Children See the World, According to Their Drawings, ” Naina Bajekal, TIME, November 14, 2018.

In a greater than 5,300-word article, ProPublica (11/14, Fraser, Muldowney, Sandoval, Mierjeski), in partnership with the Malheur Enterprise, conducted “a comprehensive new analysis” in which they found that “about 35 percent of people found criminally insane in Oregon and then let out of supervised psychiatric treatment were charged with new crimes within three years of being freed by state officials.” The analysis revealed that “Oregon releases people found not guilty by reason of insanity from supervision and treatment more quickly than nearly every other state in the nation.” What’s more, “the speed at which the state releases the criminally insane from custody is driven by both Oregon’s unique-in-the-nation law and state officials’ expansive interpretation of applicable federal court rulings.”

Related Links:

— “Oregon Board Says Those Found Criminally Insane Rarely Commit New Crimes. The Numbers Say Otherwise, “Jayme Fraser, , November 14, 2018.