By Eileen Fleming Every day in Gaza at least one person attempts suicide. In the USA someone dies by suicide every 12.8 minutes. Last week the Palestine News Network reported that the suicide rate in the Occupied Territories jumped 68.4 percent last year. The Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, which was destroyed during last summer’s…
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American Arabs, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, Health, Palestine & Jordan, VideoAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention , Arab American , Arab World , Florida State University , Gaza , Gaza Strip , Israel-Palestine , mental illness , Middle East , Out of the Darkness Walks , Palestine , Palestine News Network , suicide prevention , We are not numbers By Eileen Fleming VENTURA, Ca.- Before the brother of the first non-Arab reporter for The Arab Daily News committed suicide on Feb. 11, James A. Kasmir wrote about his struggles with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and prescription drug addictions in short stories, plays, poems and autobiographical files in a computer at Straight Up. Straight Up is…
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Bloggers, Eileen Fleming, Entertainment, Videoaddictions , Big Pharma , children , drugs , Entertainment , health and wellness , James A. Kasmir , John Oliver , mental health , mental illness , OCD , suicide , suicide prevention , Tonight with John Oliver , Ventura California , Ventura County Behavioral Health Department , Ventura Improv Company By Eileen Fleming It’s always about the money and so pharmaceutical companies eager to grab the attention of doctors and patients are using the letters X and Z in the naming of non-and highly addictive drugs. X branded drugs include prostate cancer treatment Xtandi, lung cancer drug Xalkori, and Xgeva for cancer that has…
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The Suicide Epidemic: Occupied Territories and USA
By Eileen Fleming |
By Eileen Fleming Every day in Gaza at least one person attempts suicide. In the USA someone dies by suicide every 12.8 minutes. Last week the Palestine News Network reported that the suicide rate in the Occupied Territories jumped 68.4 percent last year. The Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, which was destroyed during last summer’s…
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