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While the national suicide rate among veterans is declining, a recent study found that the suicide rate in eight states, including Montana, may be more than double what the VA is reporting.
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Funds allocated under a 2017 state law went to four suicide prevention organizations last week.
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The bipartisan agreement’s focus on mental health has raised hopes — and doubts — that it will help reduce gun suicides, particularly in rural Western states with wide-open gun laws.
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A 15-year-old patient died by suicide earlier this year while under the care of Shodair Children’s Hospital in Helena. A state health department report released to Montana Free Press outlines insufficient staffing and inadequate monitoring in the hospital’s residential psychiatric unit may have contributed to the child’s death in May.
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Research into nearly 200,000 Montana death records from the last two decades has put hard numbers to anecdotes about suicides and drug- and alcohol...
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The Senate veterans' affairs committee got an early progress report this week on a newly established program. Created by a new law, the program aims to...
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A U.S. Department of Defense report says the National Guard’s suicide rate is higher than its active duty and Reserve counterparts. DoD says there are...
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The state health department is expanding hours and staffing of phone lines for mental health therapy and suicide prevention. This comes amid a surge of...
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Montana’s Democratic Senator Jon Tester announced legislation today he says addresses rising suicide rates among farmers.Tester’s Seeding Rural Resilience…
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A program designed to address mental health awareness is coming to four high schools on the Flathead and the Rocky Boys Reservations this school year.…