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Stopping suicides begins with treating diseases of the brain

ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2017

A child played beside a message board adorned with notes for loved ones who took their own lives during an Out of the Darkness Walk event organized by the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention at Sawyer Point Park in Cincinnati, Ohio. Suicide rates inched up in nearly every U.S. state from 1999 through 2016, according to a new government report released June 7.