In the comprehensive study conducted by the Healthy Minds Policy Initiative, several factors of suicidality in Oklahoma were ...

When it comes to the higher rates in rural areas, the Department of Health says some of the contributing factors putting ...

Illinois must pass a child access prevention law to increase the age of kids to 18 that would require parents to store ...

The national average for suicide rates sat at 14.2% in 2022, having an increase from 11% in 2004 ... of death by suicide in Oklahoma has been firearm-related. Men and boys are far more likely ...

Oklahoma has a higher suicide rate than most other states, and its increasing faster than the national average.

With 813 suicides in 2024, Minnesota's rate has stabilized, yet rural areas face double the risk, prompting a significant uptick in calls to the 988 helpline for mental health support.

The Department of Health says Minnesota’s suicide rate remained unchanged in 2024 after seeing the state’s highest ever ...

Oregon legislators are proposing additional changes to Senate Bill 243, including eliminating a proposed 72-hour delay on gun ...

Steve Schneider, firearm suicide prevention program director for Alliance For Safe Oregon, said Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives data shows a significant increase in rapid ...

SB 243 originally was referred to as the "Oregon Suicide Prevention and Community ... Language to ban rapid-fire activators — devices that increase a gun's rate of fire — is unchanged.

Minnesota’s suicide rate held steady between 2023 and 2024, according to preliminary data from the state Department of Health ...