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CNN: Showing compassion, accepting cultures: Preventing suicide in the Latino community

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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

CNN: Showing compassion, accepting cultures: Preventing suicide in the Latino community


“Suicide is a public health issue that affects people from every race, every age, every gender and every class,” explains Dr. Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy, child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Long School of Medicine at UT Health in San Antonio. “But Latina teens have suicidal ideations and want to kill themselves more frequently.”

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