Mental Health - Page 374

Family's fentanyl tragedy underscores 'mind-boggling' opioid crisis in New Hampshire

Jim Zanfagna's daughter died from an overdose of heroin laced with fentanyl, and friends were posting condolence messages before the Zanfagnas ever heard from authorities.

Karl Rove: My mom's suicide was preventable

I didn’t know Kate Spade or Anthony Bourdain but saw familiar threads in their suicides, as my mother took her own life at age 51.

Kentucky sues Walgreens, claims it has role in opioid epidemic

Kentucky’s attorney general on Thursday sued Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc, accusing the company of playing a dual role in propagating an opioid epidemic in the state as both a pharmacy chain and wholesale drug distributor.

After celebrity deaths, suicide hotline calls jump 25 percent

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline says calls have spiked since the apparent suicides of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade

Suicide prevention programs call for more funding

Efforts to fight suicide in the United States are desperate for additional funding, suicide-prevention experts said, following this week’s high profile deaths of celebrities Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, and new statistics showing a growing problem.

Max Lucado: Reject suicide and embrace God -- Weeping comes, but so does joy

The suicides of CNN’s Anthony Bourdain and fashion designer Kate Spade illustrate an all-to-common tragedy – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this week that nearly 45,000 people committed suicide in the U.S. in 2016 alone, and said the suicide rate in the U.S. rose by nearly 30 percent from 1999 to 2016.

How do you talk about suicide to your child?

The deaths of fashion designer Kate Spade and CNN’s Anthony Bourdain this week have sparked conversations about the painful topic of how they died – by suicide.

Dr. Marc Siegel: Bourdain and Spade suicides raise some serious questions -- Here are some answers

The suicides this week of celebrity chef, author and CNN host Anthony Bourdain and fashion designer Kate Spade brought up more questions than we can answer.

Suicides of Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade – and my brother – can teach us important life lessons

I was deeply saddened to read that fashion designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef and CNN storyteller Anthony Bourdain took their lives this week. Their tragic deaths highlight a growing national problem.

Suicide, depression are our nation's Scarlet A (I know, because I almost took my own life)

As someone who once nearly committed suicide – going as far as holding a gun to my head – I was saddened, but not shocked, by the suicides of celebrity chef and CNN host Anthony Bourdain and fashion designer Kate Spade this week.