Insufficient sleep associated with risky behavior in teens: Mental health issues, substance abuse, accidents more likely for high school students sleeping less than six hours per night

Adolescents require 8-10 hours of sleep at night for optimal health, according to sleep experts, yet more than 70 percent

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Call for a unified approach to preventing suicides and other self-injury deaths: Study showed the rising rate of estimated self-injury mortality reached 24 deaths per 100,000 people, matching mortality from diabetes.

Self-injury mortality (SIM), a composite of all methods of suicide and estimated non-suicide deaths from drug self-intoxication, has surpassed diabetes

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