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Suicide - Closing the Exits (Paperback, Revised ed.)
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Suicide - Closing the Exits (Paperback, Revised ed.)
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Suicide prevention is a major goal of the Public Health Service of
the US government. This has been the case since the 1960s when the
National Institute of Mental Health established a center for the
study and prevention of suicide. Since then, however, the knowledge
and research gathered has not bought about the reduction of
suicide. Suicide: Closing the Exits was written to change this
trend. This book reports a program of research concerned with
preventing suicide by restricting access to lethal agents, such as
guns, drugs, and carbon monoxide. It may seem implausible that
deeply unhappy people could be prevented from killing themselves by
"closing the exits," but the idea is not a new one and has been
discussed widely in the literature. The authors argue that
restricting access to lethal agents should be considered a major
preventive strategy, along with the psychiatric treatment of
depressed and suicidal individuals and the establishment of suicide
prevention centers to counsel those in crisis. Suicide represents a
major contribution to the literature. As such, it should be read by
all medical practitioners, policy makers, and psychologists.
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