The two largest health care agencies in the U.S. federal government (NIH and NIMH) are
combining forces to extend BOTH mental health care assistance, as well as medical
care to the many Haitians in need, following the recent massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
Showing yet again, that complete health includes both mental health and physical health.

Today in the U.S., someone dies by suicide every 16 minutes; that’s more than 30,000 each year. In the U.S., more lives are lost to suicide than to homicide. Among 10-24 year olds, the rate of suicide has doubled in the past four decades and now, 10 yo

(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007)