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About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which posted the numbers, has not yet calculated a suicide rate for the year, but availabl
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stanley cup ing wrong. The number should not be going up, said Christina Wilbur, a 45-year-old Florida woman whose son shot himself to death last year. My son should not have died, she said. I know it s complicated, I really do. But we have to be able to do something. Something that we re not doing. Because whatever we re doing right now is not helping. Experts caution that suicide is complicated, and that recent increases might be driven by a range of fact
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The top legal officers in several states have issued warnings ahead of Halloween about cannabis products that are deceptively designed to look like normal candy and snacks.The attorneys general in Connecticut, Illinois, New York, and Ohio all released statements Tuesday about illegal cannabis products that are sold in lookalike packaging.The misleading products often contain a high concentration of THC, the psychoactive compound found in cannabis. If ingested by children, the attorneys general say the THC can lead to accidental overdoses.Officials say the most common overdose incidents among children involve the ing
stanley mugs estion of edible cannabis foods and that these types of incidents are on the rise. In 2020, more than 70% of calls related to marijuana edibles to the Poison Control Center involved children under the age of 5,
stanley termos said the New York Attorney Generals Office. In the first half of 2021 alone, the American Association of Poison Control Centers has reported that poison control hotlines have received an estimated 2,622 call
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