Suicides among young people went down after a national hotline was launched in 2022, researchers said in a new paper.
Some 35,529 suicides took place among people aged 15 to 34 from July 2022 through December 2024, researchers based at institutions in Massachusetts said in the study.
That was down from the preceding years and below the expected number of 39,901, according to the paper, published on April 22 by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline appears to be working,” Dr. Vishal Patel, a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School and one of the paper’s authors, told The Epoch Times in an email….