Mental Health Public Health
West Virginia Poison Center sees continued uptick of adolescent intentional self-poisoning and suspected suicide
The West Virginia Poison Center is reporting an increase in intentional self-poisoning among adolescents, particularly among 15-year-olds— an upward trend that has been largely uninterrupted for over seven years, despite a nearly six percent drop in the population of children 18 years and younger since 2014 in the state. According to Dr. Read more…
