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Roanoke County Police find possible meth lab
The Roanoke Police Department believes they found a methamphetamine lab on the 6100 block of Bent Mountain Road early Wednesday morning. Investigators say they responded to the 6100 block of Bent Mountain to check on a man who had made suicidal threats....
Tags: Health, Drug Trafficking, Behavioral Conditions, Methamphetamine (drug), Roanoke County
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Veteran suicide: growing numbers, intensified outreach
— Sleep was dangerous for me. I couldn't handle the nightmares. I thought I was psychotic. I diagnosed myself with anything other than PTSD. I came up with a plan to end the pain, end the nightmares and keep the people I loved from being hurt. I...
Tags: Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Veterans Affairs, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Behavioral Conditions, Hospitals and Clinics
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Plainfield Standoff With Armed Suspect Ends Peacefully
The Hartford CourantPolice said they persuaded an armed and suicidal man to peacefully leave his home in the Wauregan section of town after officers evacuated the neighborhood. John J. Minski, 51, of 45 North Chestnut St., was taken by medics and Plainfield police...Tags: Suicide
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Suicidal man forced closure of I-4, snarling afternoon traffic
Commuters on westbound Interstate 4 sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic for more than an hour Monday as law officers tried to talk a suicidal man down from an overpass at Kennedy Boulevard, authorities said. The man stood with one leg over the railing about...
Tags: Highway Transportation, Florida Highway Patrol, Interstate 4, Suicide
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Mental Health Team Hits The Road To Help Youth In Crisis
The Hartford CourantTen-year-old Joey Smith recently shared a celebratory high-five with Heather Kunkel, a mental health professional who was visiting the boy's Thomaston home. "Things are great, spectacular even," he said, as the two chatted at the kitchen table. It's...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut), Students, Behavioral Conditions, Family
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Are multiple concussions driving suicides in the military?
The U.S. military has faced two epidemics over the last decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. One is suicide. The annual rate of military personnel taking their own lives has doubled to about 20 per 100,000. That translated to a record 324 suicides...
Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Behavioral Conditions, University of Utah, U.S. Military, Afghanistan
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Bills DE Williams denies having 'suicidal thoughts'
ReutersBuffalo Bills defensive end Mario Williams denied on Monday that he has suicidal thoughts. Williams is in a legal battle with his former fiancee over a $785,000 engagement ring. A number of text message between Williams and his former fiancee, Erin...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Robin Williams, Suicide, Mario Williams
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NFL roundup: Gronkowski surgery shows he's clear of infection
ReutersThe Sports Xchange NFL roundup: Gronkowski surgery shows he's clear of infection New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski had his surgery as schedule on Monday to install a plate in the broken left arm. Perhaps more significant is that the surgery...Tags: Calvin Johnson, Buffalo Bills, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Bruce Irvin, Behavioral Conditions
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Saving our warriors from themselves
As the nation marks Memorial Day, here is a statistic that offers sobering insight into the lives of the military men and women who have, over the decades, sacrificed so much for so many: Last year, 349 active servicemen and women committed suicide,...
Tags: Health, Health and Medical Professionals, Memorial Day, Armed Forces, Veterans Affairs
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Suicide rates up among U.S adults ages 35 to 64, CDC reports
Suicide rates among Americans 35 to 64 years old rose 28% from 1999 to 2010, from 13.7 per 100,000 people to 17.6 per 100,000 people, the CDC reported Thursday. The greatest increases occurred in people 50 to 54 years old (up 48%) and among people 55...
Tags: Research, Demographics, Behavioral Conditions, Disease Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Suicidal man in North Dakota sets himself on fire
WATFORD CITY, N.D. - Authorities in northwestern North Dakota's McKenzie County say a man tried to kill himself with fire. Officers who responded to a call of a suicidal man in a pickup truck outside a Watford City bar on Sunday say the man poured...Tags: Suicide
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Review: 'A Tale for the Time Being' by Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki's third novel, "A Tale for the Time Being," begins with writerly disappointment. Well, it also begins with a teenage girl in a fetish café texting her great-grandmother, a feminist-anarchist Buddhist nun who purports to be 104 years old....
Tags: Authors, Arts and Culture, Religion and Belief, Buddhism, Literature
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