Means Matter
The mission of the Means Matter Campaign is to increase the proportion of suicide prevention groups who promote activities that reduce a suicidal person’s access to lethal means of suicide and who develop active partnerships with gun owner groups to prevent suicide.
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Intent, Lethality, and Method Choice Bibliography
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- This study found that the overall suicide rate and the rate of suicide by firearms, poisoning and other methods declined markedly from 1992-2006, whereas the hanging/suffocation rate increased significantly during this same time period for youth.
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