Kirk Woodring: The one word that can help end an epidemic

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Kirk Woodring, who is the chief clinical officer at the Brattleboro Retreat. 
“SUICIDE.” I intentionally write it in capital letters, and place it in quotes, because so many of us find the word extremely difficult to see and to say. And yet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified suicide as an epidemic in the U.S., with rates having reached a 30-year peak since they began to climb in 1999.
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