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	Suicide watch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Suicide watch is an intensive monitoring process used to ensure that an individual does not commit suicide.
		Individuals are placed on suicide watch when it is believed there is a good chance they will attempt to harm themselves.
		People under suicide watch are put into an environment where it would be difficult for them to hurt themselves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suicide_watch (196 words)

	Suicide Watch
		In an effort to prevent suicides in county jails and reduce the liability risk for counties, about 800 jail staff and sheriffs across the state attended a spring law enforcement regional workshop on suicide detection and prevention in jails.
		Jail suicide litigation typically centers around certain factors: insufficient staff, inadequate training and supervision, deficient jail conditions, lack of policies and procedures for screening and monitoring potentially suicidal inmates and overcrowding.
		Although there are "suicide victim" profiles that officers should be familiar with, an inmate’s emotional state and behavior at booking is the most significant indicator of whether that individual might be a suicide risk, Rowe said.
	www.county.org /resources/library/county_mag/county/133/suicide.html (928 words)

	Counselling Service - After Suicide or Attempted
		The most common scenario for a high profile suicide attempt is one where in a hall of residence a small group of students, often close friends, have acted promptly to rescue the fellow student.
		Suicide has a way of making people intensely angry with the one who did or may have committed suicide, the initial focus often being on their selfishness, at all the trouble they have caused, at how little they must really have cared for others.
		For parents, the death of a child by suicide tends to be by far the worst experience of their lives, without exception.
	www.rdg.ac.uk /counselling/counselling/AfterSuicide.htm (3322 words)

	Section-14 Health Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Suicide risk cards and labels should be considered only as temporary markers, with a short life span.
		Reasons for more than 72 hours on suicide watch must be documented and approved by the facility mental health authority in consultation with the facility head.
		Suicide attempts will be reported to the chief mental health officer in writing within 72 hours of the incident.
	www.doc.state.ok.us /Offtech/op140129.htm (2744 words)

	HRW: Ill Equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness: XIII. SUICIDE AND SELF-MUTILATION
		At times, while in the isolation of suicide watch, he is placed in four-point restraints for hours at a time and forcibly injected with high doses of a tranquilizer….
		Janet Schaeffer told Human Rights Watch of a suicidal prisoner she had encountered in a Pennsylvania facility who was repeatedly stripped naked and put into an observation cell despite a history of having been sexually abused as a child that had left him terrified when he did not have his underwear on.
		The aggressive and comprehensive effort is paying off: the number of suicides within the Pennsylvania system declined from fourteen in 1995 to five in 2000, despite an increase of over eight thousand in the size of the state’s prison population.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2003/usa1003/22.htm (6977 words)

	February 24, 2000: News, Suicide Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Calls to a local suicide hot line dissuaded them from killing themselves and they were not alone in their feelings of extreme despair.
		The Centers for Disease Control reports that suicide is the eighth leading cause of death in America, with a nationwide total in 1997 of 30,535--about one and a half times the number of homicides that year.
		Western states in general have high suicide rates, leading many to speculate that those residing among transient populations in isolated areas are more likely to kill themselves.
	www.lasvegasweekly.com /departments/02_24_00/news_suicide_watch.html (1123 words)

	Suicide Watch - Concerns About Accutane
		His suicide was discussed all over the affluent, articulate town where, in the words of a police captain, "the community has a sense bad things don't happen, but they do." Neighbors and friends, teachers, cops and kids were all sadly engaged by what seemed a tragic waste.
		But suicide is not commonly a one-dimensional act, and part of the reaction in Palo Alto was that it would be simplistic to blame Steven's desire to die on a zit pill.
		Steven's suicide is an illustration of how hard it is to know what if any role Accutane played in the scores of suicides and suicide attempts to which the drug has been linked.
	www.suicideandmentalhealthassociationinternational.org /suiwaccu.html (5979 words)

	Suicide by Watch
		Those in distress, suffering from deep depression, who have made serious suicidal gestures, or who have committed egregious crimes and face certain long imprisonment are designated for suicide watch.
		Last week, as I interviewed (as a prosecution-retained psychiatrist) a defendant, he shared his dismal jail experiences of being on suicide watch, where he had been placed after a standoff with police that led to his being taken into custody.
		Making suicidal thinking so toxic to the desperate is no way to overlook how each of us, law abiding or not, stares into the darkness at some point or the other.
	echo.forensicpanel.com /2000/4/1/suicideby.html (747 words)

	The Bright Side - Support & resources for coping with depression, grief, suicide, mental illness, and emotional crisis ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		You can also read stories of others who have felt suicidal and you'll see that you are not alone.
		For decades, fls took perverse pride and comfort in the notion that suicide was a "white folks' thing." They were always able to laugh or pray their way out of the worst adversity.
		Suicide among older Americans is an important public health problem, made all the more alarming because it can be prevented.
	www.the-bright-side.org /site/thebrightside/section/325 (872 words)

	Suicide watch: after homicides and accidents, suicide is the third-leading cause of death among Black youth Ebony - ...
		Suicide watch: after homicides and accidents, suicide is the third-leading cause of death among Black youth
		Experts say the most common reasons given for attempted suicides by teen suicide survivors were spats with a boyfriend or girlfriend, arguments with parents, school problems and sexual identity issues.
		When many of us think that depression and suicidal tendencies only run in families, and the only people who commit suicide are those who are either half-crazy, half-dead or the victim of abuse, we push the problem even farther underground.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1077/is_5_61/ai_n16088541 (654 words)

	Suicide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Suicide or attempted suicide as a means of effecting social or political change is related to martyrdom.
		Suicidal attacks by pilots were common in the 20th century: the attack by U.S. torpedo planes at the Battle of Midway was very similar to a kamikaze attack.
		Some see suicide as a legitimate matter of personal choice and a human right (colloquially known as the right to die movement), and maintain that no one should be forced to suffer against their will, particularly from conditions such as incurable disease, mental illness, and old age that have no possibility of improvement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suicide (3605 words)

	Depression-drug suicide watch urged \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		The agency says it's not yet clear whether the drugs actually spur suicide on occasion - or whether the underlying mental illness is to blame.
		Still, until the question is settled, the FDA's own scientific advisers had urged stronger warnings that certain anti-depressants may cause agitation, anxiety and hostility in a subset of patients who may be unusually prone to rare side effects.
		The FDA had investigated reports of suicide among adult anti-depressant users in the early 1990s and concluded there was no link - but on Monday it revealed that it is reanalyzing that question.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/14967 (701 words)

	Israel/PA: Suicide Bombers Commit Crimes Against Humanity (Human Rights Watch Press release, Gaza, November 1, 2002)
		The report, Erased in a Moment: Suicide Bombing Attacks against Israeli Civilians, also provides the most thorough study to date of the suicide bombing operations of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the groups that have claimed responsibility for almost all recent suicide bombings.
		Human Rights Watch called on all Palestinian armed groups to halt attacks on civilians immediately and unconditionally, and urged the PA to ensure that those in any way responsible for such attacks are brought to justice.
		Human Rights Watch also urged the PA to undertake a public campaign urging an end suicide bombings and other attacks against civilians and making clear that the PA does not consider as "martyrs" people who die carrying out attacks that deliberately or indiscriminately kill or cause great suffering among civilians.
	humanrightswatch.org /press/2002/11/isrl-pa1101.htm (1177 words)

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	Suicide Watch: Antidepressants get large-scale inspection: Science News Online, July 24, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rises in suicide attempts after starting antidepressant treatment were similar in teenagers and adults and in men and women.
		Although the new report offers little to suggest that SSRIs uniquely foster suicide, it's unlikely to ease a "general crisis of confidence" in how antidepressant use is regulated, especially for children, remark psychiatrist Simon Wessely and psychologist Robert Kerwin, both of the Institute of Psychiatry in London, in an editorial published with Jick's article.
		Suicidal behavior occurred in 2.4 percent of youngsters during paroxetine treatment, compared with 1.1 percent of those given placebo pills.
	www.sciencenews.org /articles/20040724/fob1.asp (695 words)

	Enhanced suicide watch - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Having reworked policies to determine which inmates at the Westmoreland County Prison are suicide risks, prison officials are planning to place motion-detecting cameras in the suicide-watch area as part of a $900,000 project.
		Schott and Ray were not on suicide watch when they killed themselves, according to the lawsuits.
		Any inmate who had been placed on suicide watch at a institution in the past three years will be placed on suicide watch upon intake at the Westmoreland County Prison.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_396613.html (694 words)

	CNN.com - Human Rights Watch: Suicide bombers 'war criminals' - Nov. 1, 2002
		Those who plan and carry out suicide bombings that deliberately target civilians are guilty of crimes against humanity and must be brought to justice, a leading humanitarian watchdog group said in a report released Friday.
		Human Rights Watch called on all Palestinian armed groups to halt their attacks on civilians "immediately and unconditionally," and urged the Palestinian Authority to make sure those responsible for such attacks are brought to justice.
		Human Rights Watch based its report, "Erased in a Moment: Suicide Bombing Attacks against Israeli Civilians," on interviews with P.A. officials and members of the armed groups, and P.A. internal documents it said were made public by Israel.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/11/01/human.rights.palestinians (1063 words)

	village voice > news > Suicide Watch by Simon Reynolds
		Alan Suicide leans over and tweaks a detail in one of his light sculptures, almost imperceptibly shifting the jut of a plastic dinosaur.
		Suicide are now so firmly installed in the rock canon, it's hard to remember the scorn they once provoked.
		An old Suicide outtake from 1975 is appearing in a European commercial for Tia Maria.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0205/reynolds.php (1413 words)

	Suicide watches by inmates benefit all
		Prison suicide watches done by other inmates, instead of prison staff, reduce the frequency and duration of watches, benefit inmate observers and reduce costs, according to a study conducted by Federal Bureau of Prisons researchers that appears in the summer-fall issue of Psychological Services (Vol.
		During one of those sessions, institution staff conducted the watches, as is typical in prisons; during the other, inmates did the watching.
		For psychotic inmates on suicide watch, the average number of hours spent under watch dropped significantly when inmates were doing the watching, from about 100 hours with staff observers to about 65 hours with inmate observers, Junker says.
	www.apa.org /monitor/jun05/suicide.html (406 words)

	Watch for suicide risk among cancer patients, oncologist advises
		The overall incidence of suicide is low among cancer patients but they are twice to 2½ times more apt to take their own life than members of the general population, an oncologist in Ottawa says.
		Suicide risk was higher for cancers of the lungs and bronchus, bladder, head and neck, esophagus and myeloma.
		Blacks had a lower risk of suicide, as is the case in the general U.S. population.
	www.cbc.ca /health/story/2006/10/19/cancer-suicide.html?ref=rss (1339 words)

	How does a suicide watch work? - By Daniel Engber - Slate Magazine
		Suicide watch is mostly designed to prevent hanging, which is far and away the most common suicide method in prisons and hospitals.
		Even if a suicidal prisoner does manage to tie something around his neck, he won't be able to hang himself unless he has somewhere to tie the other end.
		This designation is typically reserved for those who seem both inclined to commit suicide and temporarily unable to control their actions.
	www.slate.com /id/2133393 (1025 words)

	Suicide watch - Los Angeles Times
		Juxtaposed with suicide footage are astonishingly beautiful scenes of the bridge and astonishingly candid interviews with victims' families and friends; the film asks more questions than it answers.
		Despite their anger and devastation, friends and family members interviewed convey a sense of relief that is both utterly human and more shocking than the footage of those who leapt to their deaths.
		The question is also posed as to whether suicides of this nature are inevitable.
	www.latimes.com /news/opinion/commentary/la-ed-bridge10nov10,0,7768102.story?coll=la-home-commentary (422 words)

	Catholic World News : The Suicide Watch
		The drive toward public acceptance of physician-assisted suicide took a great leap forward in the United States in November, when voters in the state of Oregon rejected an effort to overturn a new law legalizing the practice.
		On November 14, his lawyer announced that Kevorkian had helped a woman to commit suicide inside a Catholic church, in accordance with her final request; he even claimed that a sympathetic priest had been in attendance.
		The general level of frustration with Kevorkian's activities was evident when the Detroit Hotel Association called upon "Dr. Death" to stop arranging suicides in hotels and motels, citing the damage to employees' well-being, the disruption caused by police investigations, and the cost of cleaning the rooms.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=20930 (994 words)

	Policy changed - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		County officials began the investigation because Steadman was placed in the general population instead of under supervision, even though he had been on suicide watch during a previous stay at the lockup.
		Sources have said that an intake counselor noted Steadman should be placed on suicide watch again, but that didn't happen.
		And two new cells are being built to house prisoners on suicide watch.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/westmoreland/s_143558.html (644 words)

	US Troops in Iraq on Suicide Watch
		That means a suicide rate of 17.3 per 100,000, a figure far in excess of last year's overall U.S. military rate of 12.8.
		After a spate of five suicides in July last year, the Pentagon took the highly unusual step of sending a psychiatric assessment team into the war zone.
		The team concluded there was "no crisis" in Iraq; that the suicides could be explained by the victims' personal circumstances — each had financial, domestic or legal problems.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0411-03.htm (1558 words)

	Dept. of Corrections_291_076
		The officer-in-charge may initiate a suicide watch until a registered nurse or mental health professional arrives.
		(7) Housing: Inmates on suicide watch or suicide close observation may be housed in a segregation cell or special housing to receive continuous or close monitoring by staff.
		Upon determination by a registered nurse or mental health professional that an inmate cannot be safely maintained at a facility while on suicide watch or suicide close observation (in particular, those facilities without 24-hour nursing coverage), arrangements will be made to transfer the inmate to the most appropriate facility for observation and intervention.
	arcweb.sos.state.or.us /rules/OARS_200/OAR_291/291_076.html (1606 words)

	MetroActive News & Issues \| Teen Suicide
		Statistics show that, in most U.S. states, suicide is the third leading cause of death among 15- to 25-year-olds (after homicide and automobile accidents), and it's the second most frequent reason teens are hospitalized.
		According to Pickar, in Sonoma County there were three teen suicides in 1993; two in 1994; three in 1995; seven in 1996; and six in 1997.
		For the individual who feels the pain of chronic emotional abandonment by his or her parents, the act of suicide may be the only way the teen can convey his or her pain.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/02.19.98/news1-9807.html (1224 words)

	Suicide Watch
		The judge was seeking to protect this particular death row inmate from making a decision without first being assured that he had the requisite mental capacity.
		When the nation's only doctor-assisted suicide law passed in 1994 and was affirmed in 1996, the question of whether taxpayers in Oregon should be burdened with the costs of the initiative was left unanswered.
		When taxpayers are forced to pay for assisted suicide, some citizens are coerced into compromising their fundamental values of faith.
	www.firstliberties.com /suicide_watch.html (680 words)

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