suicide

The number of suicides in Utah caused by drug overdoses may be greatly underreported. A new study published in the medical journal "Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior" looked at more than 26-hundred overdose deaths in Utah that occurred from 2012 to 2015...

For the first time in several years, Utah's suicide rate saw a slight decrease. According to a report from the Department of Human Services, the rate dropped from 22-point-seven per 100-thousand people in 2017, to 22-point-two last year. In the report, health officials say it is too early to tell whether this indicates a positive trend, stating that this is the time to "double down" on s

The Salt Lake City School District is strongly discouraging students from watching the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why." The district sent a letter home to parents noting that the new season of the series debuted last week. Organizations such as the Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide have voiced concerns about the show's content, which deals with the aftermath of a young person's

Utah’s suicide rate is the fifth-highest in the nation, according to the Utah Department of Health. An average of 592 Utahns die by suicide each year and more than 4,500 Utahns reportedly attempt it. The largest group at risk might surprise you. W...

The F-C-C is recommending that the digits 9-8-8 be adopted as the new number of the National Suicide Prevention Hotline. They made the announcement Thursday. Representative Chris Stewart of Utah sponsored the bill that mandated the report...

The family of a Utah State University student who allegedly killed herself because she was being bullied is suing the school. Twenty-four-year-old Jerusha Sanjeevi from Malaysia was a P-H-D candidate who died in 2017. The lawsuit claims Sanjeevi was jeered at by other students for having darker skin, smelling like Indian food and having a weird name...

A woman has died after being hit by a stray bullet fired by her ex-boyfriend as he killed himself. It happened Friday night in Payson Canyon at the Maple Bench Campground. The Utah County Sheriff's office said 24-year-old Nakylee Marvin and her five-year-old were camping with her ex-boyfriend, Ethan Timoko...

Utah had the fifth-highest overall suicide rate at 25.2 per 100,000, and since 1999, the state saw a 46.5 percent increase in residents taking their own lives. It is a crisis that has led Gov. Gary Herbert to create a youth suicide task force and state lawmakers to fund a new staffer to study why Utahns have died by suicide...

A Utah youth suicide prevention expert is speaking out after the discovery of a disturbing video on the YouTube Kids app that instructs children how to slit their wrists. The clip, since taken down by YouTube, appeared to be a regular children's cartoon until the 4:44 mark when it cut to a man in sunglasses...