Pomidor Quixote

Daily Stormer

June 1, 2019

What’s happening to kids and their childhoods is unacceptable.

Daily Mail:

In just over one year, 100 children between nine and 12 have attempted suicide by overdosing on drugs in New Jersey, the state’s poison control center revealed Friday.

Self-poisonings – especially among girls – are on the rise across the country, a trend that has public health officials warning American parents to protect their pills.

Since 2015, the number of such attempts has doubled in New Jersey, the poison control center said.

And 80 percent of those attempts were made by girls.

‘This trend should sound the alarms – we have young children attempting suicide by overdose at a rate which continues to increase,’ said Dr Diane Calello, executive and medical director of the NJ Poison Control Center.

The Rutgers University based team reported that thee nine-year-olds, seven 10-year-olds, 22 11-year-olds and 68 12-year-olds attempted to poison themselves to death since the start of 2018.

It’s not just a New Jersey phenomenon. It’s happening across the US.

Over the last decade, suicide attempts have surged across the board, but the increases among young Americans has been particularly worrying.

In the first few months of 2019 alone, 30 children 12 and under have attempted suicide by self-poisoning.

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The New Jersey Poison Control Center is urging adults to take preventative measures to keep kids away from drugs.

‘We now know that keeping medicines up high and out of reach is not enough to prevent adolescent suicide,’ said Dr Bruce Ruck, managing director of the center.

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‘We need to keep an eye on what younger children are doing because people tend to think these younger children aren’t trying to harm themselves but they are.’

Because hospitals are not required by law to report poisonings to the poison control centers, Dr Ruck suspects that the numbers in his report are likely low.

‘We may just be the tip of the iceberg,’ he says.