Together We Can: Safe Home Environment Better storage practices can help make the home safe and save lives, January 9, 2020

(2020) Together We Can: Safe Home Environment Better storage practices can help make the home safe and save lives, January 9, 2020. Veterans Affairs, Iowa Commission of

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Abstract

Thoughts about suicide are often short-lived. A safe home environment can buy you, or a person you’re concerned about, time to get help. Safely storing things that can be used to harm oneself, such as firearms and medications, or removing them from your home — even temporarily — can save lives. Most suicides occur in the home and involve firearms — by far the most common and lethal of the means used in suicides. Others may involve household objects or substances used in a harmful way.

Item Type: Departmental Report
Keywords: Suicide, Suicide Preventative, Military, Veterans
Subjects: Federal government > Military
Health and medicine
Social issues and programs
ID Code: 33196
Deposited By: Margaret Barr
Deposited On: 30 Jul 2020 16:35
Last Modified: 30 Jul 2020 16:35
URI: https://publications.iowa.gov/id/eprint/33196