Senate OKs Hatch bill seeking 3-digit national suicide prevention hotline

SALT LAKE CITY — The U.S. Senate this week passed Sen. Orrin Hatch's bill asking the Federal Communications Commission to review the possibility of creating a national three-digit hotline for suicide prevention.
Hatch, R-Utah, contends that such a hotline is critical to improving the accessibility of mental health professionals for Americans in crisis. He said Tuesday that he has met with "dozens of families" in the past year who have lost a person they love to suicide and that "in their m