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Researchers still don't understand why severely depressed teenagers are more likely than adults to commit suicide while taking antidepressant drugs like Paxil, but a major study out of UCLA concluded that the drugs do more good than harm. Starting in the early 1960s, the annual U.S. suicide rate held fairly steady at 12 to 14 instances per 100,000--until 1988, when the first of a new generation of antidepressants, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, was introduced. The suicide rate has been falling ever since, to around 10 per 100,000. The investigators estimate that nearly 34,000 lives...
...years ago, and where ordinary people are gagged by fear and secrecy, Ma-ae talks. He talks about growing up in a remote, militant-held village that has become a virtual no-go zone for Thai security forces. He talks about how insurgents are recruited, initiated and dispatched to commit mayhem and murder. And he talks about his father, a government official and?claim the men who gunned him down?a military informer. He says he knows the names of the killers (they're his neighbors) but dares not confront them. "If I did," he says, "they'd kill...
...left post.With the Crimson now playing with a one-man advantage, Pelle turned on the red light again when he stuffed in the rebound from sophomore defenseman Brian McCafferty’s one-time slapshot from the point.Harvard’s good fortune ended there, as the Crimson committed six penalties before the end of the period. Princeton capitalized on two of these to tie the score before the end of the first.“We got two goals probably without the required work and dedication that it usually takes to score,” said Harvard coach...
...1960s, many states in the U.S. began reassessing hospitalized mental patients, releasing those not deemed to be a danger to themselves or others and passing laws making it more difficult to commit individuals without their consent. Many asylum patients were released, albeit with mixed results...
...last week. The country is holding its collective breath to see whether the demonstrations will escalate. "In the mid-1970s we passed through a similar situation and the country's leaders took us to civil war," recalls Wassef Awada, columnist for the Beirut daily As-Safir. "Will the Lebanese commit suicide again...